How does Leibniz notation work?

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Wataru
Sep 1, 2014

#d/dx# represents the derivative with respect to #x#.
So, the first derivative is
#y'={dy}/{dx}#
the second derivative is
#y''=d/{dx}(dy/dx)={d^2y}/dx^2#,
and so on.

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