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    1 08-05-2012  05:50
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    2 08-05-2012  06:01
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    Re: confused about something first principles and derivitives
    I could guess but it would help if you can tell me what "n" is.

    Is there a section of the notes before this that you haven't posted?
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    3 08-05-2012  06:06
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    Re: confused about something first principles and derivitives
    Difficult to tell with such scant detail, but I suspect that you have to have to be able to differentiate x^n from first principals for rational n.
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