Viral Math News: Its 17th Derivative Will Be Its Last
A clickbait headline: a piecewise function announces that its 17th derivative will be its last.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-12-07-viral-math-news-its-17th-derivative-will-be-its-last/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Sad figure beside f(x) = {0, x ≤ 0; x¹⁷, x > 0}] "End of an era? This function just announced that its 17th derivative will be its last" [reactions: 560, 412]