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Symbols That Math Really Needs: And Then Some Algebra Happens

April 27, 2016

A squiggly arrow meaning 'some algebraic steps follow which I'm fairly confident lead here', skipping the limit derivation of the power rule.

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Symbol: a squiggly downward arrow. Meaning: and then some algebraic steps follow, which I'm fairly confident should lead to the following expression… [board: lim (x+h)ⁿ − xⁿ / h ⇝ nxⁿ⁻¹]

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