Hello,
I want to consider derivatives as functions.
How does maxima do this?
For instance,
(%i14) f(x):= diff(x^3,x);
3
(%o14) f(x) := diff(x , x)
(%i15) f(2);
Non-variable 2nd argument to diff:
2
#0: f(x=2)
-- an error. To debug this try debugmode(true);
How does one define the derivative as a function, so one can compute
values, plots, etc?
TIA,
-sen
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