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Why the Partial Derivative Notation is not Well-Defined (but everyone knows what you mean)

August 25, 2024

This was a shower thought I had today. Consider the function f(x, y) = x^2 + 3y. Then, compute df/dx. Now, you might not know how to do partial differentiation,…

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