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Re: How to Remove Removed[Derivative]?

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  • Subject: [mg42834] Re: How to Remove Removed[Derivative]?
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:30:24 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

you have to delete the SubValues[] of Derivative[] with

SubValues[Derivative] = {}

Regards
  Jens

Vadym Lepetyuk wrote:
> 
> Hello MathGroup:
> 
> When I execute the following list of expressions (in Mathematica
> v.4.2) I expect to get "f'[5]" from the last expression instead
> of "3". Is it a bug or something else?
> 
> ----------------------------
> f'[5]
> f'[_] = 2;
> f'[5]
> Remove[Derivative]
> f'[5]
> f'[_] = 3;
> f'[5]
> Remove[Derivative]
> f'[5]
> ----------------------------
> 
> If Remove[] is replaced by Clear[] the output from the last
> expression is "f'[5]" as expected. Would it be the reason to
> always use Clear[] rather than Remove[]?
> 
> Thank you,
> Vadym


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