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Which high-degree derivatives play an essential role?
Q. Which high-degree derivatives play an essential role
in applications, or in theorems?
Of course the 1st derivative of distance w.r.t. time (velocity), the 2nd derivative (acceleration),
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Commuting of exterior derivative and contraction (vector-valued forms)
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