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  2. Difference quotient - Wikipedia

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    lim Δ P → 0 {\displaystyle \lim _ {\Delta P\rightarrow 0}\,\!} ), then ΔF (P) is known as an infinitesimal difference, with specific denotations of dP and dF (P) (in calculus graphing, the point is almost exclusively identified as "x" and F (x) as "y"). The function difference divided by the point difference is known as "difference quotient":

  3. L'Hôpital's rule - Wikipedia

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    This follows from the difference-quotient definition of the derivative. The last equality follows from the continuity of the derivatives at c. The limit in the conclusion is not indeterminate because ′ (). The proof of a more general version of L'Hôpital's rule is given below. General proof

  4. Numerical differentiation - Wikipedia

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    Numerical differentiation. Finite difference estimation of derivative. In numerical analysis, numerical differentiation algorithms estimate the derivative of a mathematical function or function subroutine using values of the function and perhaps other knowledge about the function.

  5. Backward differentiation formula - Wikipedia

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    The backward differentiation formula ( BDF) is a family of implicit methods for the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations. They are linear multistep methods that, for a given function and time, approximate the derivative of that function using information from already computed time points, thereby increasing the accuracy of ...

  6. Symmetric derivative - Wikipedia

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    Symmetric derivative. In mathematics, the symmetric derivative is an operation generalizing the ordinary derivative. It is defined as: [1] [2] The expression under the limit is sometimes called the symmetric difference quotient. [3] [4] A function is said to be symmetrically differentiable at a point x if its symmetric derivative exists at that ...

  7. Finite difference - Wikipedia

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    A finite difference is a mathematical expression of the form f (x + b) − f (x + a).If a finite difference is divided by b − a, one gets a difference quotient.The approximation of derivatives by finite differences plays a central role in finite difference methods for the numerical solution of differential equations, especially boundary value problems.

  8. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    Newton's method is a powerful technique—in general the convergence is quadratic: as the method converges on the root, the difference between the root and the approximation is squared (the number of accurate digits roughly doubles) at each step. However, there are some difficulties with the method.

  9. Finite difference method - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In numerical analysis, finite-difference methods ( FDM) are a class of numerical techniques for solving differential equations by approximating derivatives with finite differences. Both the spatial domain and time domain (if applicable) are discretized, or broken into a finite number of intervals, and the values of the solution at the end ...