How to get diff to yield result in terms of original function
Subject: How to get diff to yield result in terms of original function
From: Barton Willis
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:18:16 -0600
>> "Maxima could use a good representation of the
>> derivative of an arbitrary function".
> Yes. I have some thoughts about what would be good and bad ways to
> do this, but they should probably wait for the Wiki.
I don't know what you all have in mind, but there is
pdiff (the positional derivative package); however,
pdiff doesn't directly yield a way to express a
derivative interms of itself.
Barton