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Re: Re: Forcing a Derivative

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• Subject: [mg50793] Re: [mg50778] Re: Forcing a Derivative
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:49:18 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Your answer, and those of others, just reinforces my complaint about 
this limitation of Mathematica today.  Why should one have to introduce 
what is, from a modern mathematical point of view, an extraneous extra 
variable, "x"?

A function f is an object; an "expression in x" such as f[x] is quite 
another.  Or at least it should be!

Klaus G wrote:

>>...
>>Derivative[2][f * g]
>>just puts a couple of primes on the product rather than actually computing the dervative.
>>Thanks for any insight.
>>Cheers, Scott
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> f is NOT f[x], so please try:
> 
> deriv = D[f[x]*g[x], {x, 2}]
> Collect[deriv, x]
> 
> regards
> Klaus G.
> 
> 

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    • From: Karl_boehme_9@msn.com (Klaus G)