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Riley, I might be a calculus genius.
{{CMD_7}} Yeah? Explain this one to me.
{{CMD_8}} Let me first ask you a question. Say you have a function, like
{{MATH_9}}, and you want to know {{MATH_10}}. Do
you plug in the number {{MATH_11}} before or after you find the derivative?
{{CMD_12}} Hmmmm. Well, my next step is usually
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So I guess before.
{{CMD_14}} Aha! I think you're wasting time. You see I write
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and it means that I can look at the derivative of my function at
{{CMD_16}}any{{CMD_17}} point. So, I plug in the {{MATH_18}} {{{CMD_19}} after} I've found the derivative.
{{CMD_20}} That does seem like a pretty genius move. But doesn't working
with {{MATH_21}}, instead of numbers, make all of this more difficult?
{{CMD_22}} Not at all. Let's do the problems both ways, at the same time:
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{{CMD_26}} Whoa. So now the derivative is a function. Wait, what's
its domain? Its range?
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