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If the original polynomial represents a position as a function of time, differentiating once will give you the speed, differentiating once more, acceleration. Differentiating a third time will give you the rate of change of acceleration; this is sometimes used, though not very frequently.

One application where different functions are differentiated not just three times, but an arbitrary number of times, is to evaluate the function value, using Taylor's method.

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