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Re: Re: Re: Re: Forcing a Derivative
I agree that Mathematica's notion of function MAY be broader than in
Mathematics in some respects (but in others is MUCH narrower -- that's
quite another topic). But I don't quite see how that necessarily
precludes a reasonable implementation of such an algebra of
numerically-valued functions of numerical arguments.
After all, I would not try to evaluate
Plot'[x]
either! But that doesn't prohibit me from evaluating, say, Sin'[x].
Likewise, just because I would not dream of asking for the syntactically
correct expression
Plot + NumberForm
to have meaning does not preclude a meaning for, say, Sin + Exp.
Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> But one does not need to introduce x in f:
>
> f[x_]:=x^3
>
>
> Derivative[2][f]
>
> 6 #1&
>
> No x was needed.
>
> As has been pointed out already a number of times, what is not
> implemented by default is the algebra of complex functions, that is,
> if f and g are functions then 2f + 3 g or 5 f*g are not considered by
> Mathematica to be functions. One reason for that maybe that in
> Mathematica the notion of a "function" is broader than in Mathematics.
> In any case the algebras of functions and operators are easy to
> implement oneself and this has already been done more than once on this
> list....
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