How to assign a derivative of a function to a new function?
Subject: How to assign a derivative of a function to a new function?
From: Jaime Villate
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 17:00:11 +0100
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:01 +0200, Philippe Boeraeve wrote:
> am trying to assign a derivative to a new function, in order to know
> the value of the derivative of the function at one point.
Besides the two methods that others have pointed out, there is a third
method:
(%i2) define(y(x), a*x^3+b*x^2+c*x+d)$
(%i3) define(dy(x), diff(y(x),x))$
Regards,
Jaime Villate