Tonight’s stupid Calculus problem: f(x) = cos(3x), compute the 19th derivative
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Ok yeah. That’s pretty lame.
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Originally I thought purely busywork. Are they learning to generalize nth derivatives ? math24.net/higher-order-deri…
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Replying to @jwmwi
Not as far as I can tell. Daughter’s homework had two problems like this, but she says they never covered it in class.

Sep 30, 2021 · 1:45 PM UTC