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  2. Difference quotient - Wikipedia

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    Difference quotients may also find relevance in applications involving Time discretization, where the width of the time step is used for the value of h. The difference quotient is sometimes also called the Newton quotient [10] [12] [13] [14] (after Isaac Newton) or Fermat's difference quotient (after Pierre de Fermat). [15]

  3. Symmetric derivative - Wikipedia

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    For differentiable functions, the symmetric difference quotient does provide a better numerical approximation of the derivative than the usual difference quotient. [3] The symmetric derivative at a given point equals the arithmetic mean of the left and right derivatives at that point, if the latter two both exist. [1] [2]: 6

  4. Discrete calculus - Wikipedia

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    The difference quotient of the difference quotient is called the second difference quotient and it is defined at ... if the graph is a tree, is a -cochain ...

  5. Numerical differentiation - Wikipedia

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    This expression is Newton's difference quotient (also known as a first-order divided difference). The slope of this secant line differs from the slope of the tangent line by an amount that is approximately proportional to h. As h approaches zero, the slope of the secant line approaches the slope of the tangent line.

  6. Quotient graph - Wikipedia

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    More formally, a quotient graph is a quotient object in the category of graphs. The category of graphs is concretizable – mapping a graph to its set of vertices makes it a concrete category – so its objects can be regarded as "sets with additional structure", and a quotient graph corresponds to the graph induced on the quotient set V / R of ...

  7. Tangent - Wikipedia

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    The graph y = x 1/3 illustrates the first possibility: here the difference quotient at a = 0 is equal to h 1/3 /h = h −2/3, which becomes very large as h approaches 0. This curve has a tangent line at the origin that is vertical. The graph y = x 2/3 illustrates another possibility: this graph has a cusp at the origin.

  8. Derivative - Wikipedia

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    In principle, the derivative of a function can be computed from the definition by considering the difference quotient and computing its limit. Once the derivatives of a few simple functions are known, the derivatives of other functions are more easily computed using rules for obtaining derivatives of more complicated functions from simpler ones.

  9. Second derivative - Wikipedia

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    The second derivative of a function f can be used to determine the concavity of the graph of f. [2] A function whose second derivative is positive is said to be concave up (also referred to as convex), meaning that the tangent line near the point where it touches the function will lie below the graph of the function.