Timeline for Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
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| Nov 11, 2010 at 18:13 | comment | added | Jeremy West | I only meant that they would numerically estimate it at x = 2 using the limit definition. It is easy to estimate using the definition, but if they try to differentiate and plug in 2 they will probably get the wrong answer. | |
| Nov 11, 2010 at 15:35 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | How do you differentiate x^x using only the limit definition? This seems like a tall order to me. | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 6:31 | history | answered | Jeremy West | CC BY-SA 2.5 |