Re: How to use "Apply" to do differentiation ?
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- Subject: [mg114555] Re: How to use "Apply" to do differentiation ?
- From: Achilleas Lazarides <achilleas.lazarides at gmx.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 06:48:53 -0500 (EST)
This works
NestList[D[#, x] &, x^5, 5]
(without {}). This is because Nest doesn't replace the Head of its second argument by its first, as Apply does.
To check what you wanted to check, you could try
D[#, x] &@(x^5)
as opposed to
D[#, x] &@@(x^5)
which is what you did try.
On Dec6, 2010, at 4:57 AM, Chenguang Zhang wrote:
> I tried to recursively apply differentiation to a normal
> distribution function,
> and before using Nest command I wanted to check if pure function worked...
> Now I know that I missed "{}" in my command and Apply[D[#,x]&, {x^5}] is
> the correct one. Thanks to all!