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Old January 22nd, 2009, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Mathstud28 View Post
Just out of curiosity is "derive" even techically correct terminology?
I don't think so.

I don't think the terms, as applied to calculus, are analogous to their normal meanings.

It's simply defined that:
A derivative is the rate of change of a function.
The process of finding a derivative is differentiation.
The result of n differentiations is the nth derivative, or nth differential of a function.
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