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- From: astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: DERIVATIVE OF X^X
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.012530.28087@nysernet.org>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 01:25:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.200746.11729@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- nas_ps@jsc.nasa.gov (Pradip R. Shah) writes:
-
- >This was the problem posed to us in my undergrad math class. I do not remember
- >now, how I solved it then (almost 15 years ago). Here it goes:
-
- >Using the definition of the derivative (i.e. df/dx = lim {f(x+h) - f(x)}/h ),
- > h->0
- >find the derivative of y w.r.t. x , given
-
-
- > y = x^x (assume x is a real number and .ne. 0)
-
- >Thanks in advance for your help.
-
- Doing it straight from the definition would not be all that easy;
- however, using either logarithmic differentiation or writing x^x as
- e^{x \ln x} makes it routine.
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- Alan H. Stein ----- AJIN ----- astein@israel.nysernet.org
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