A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

The arithmetic derivative

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Richard Green
Apr 21, 2024
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Can you differentiate a number and get a nonzero answer? You can't with the usual kind of differentiation, but you can with the “arithmetic derivative”. The basic version of the arithmetic derivative…

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