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Related rates is just an application of the chain rule. Typically, we have a function $y = x$, where $x$ is implicitly dependent on anothe...

The Newton-Raphson method (often shorted to Newton's method) is an algorithm for approximating the roots of a real-valued function. T...

Linear Approximations Using Differentials If $f$ is a continuous function such that $f'(a) \ne 0$, then the tangent line to the curve ...

Definition For a real-valued function $f$ of a single real variable, the derivative of $f$ is the function $f'$ whose value at $x$ i...

This is a simple post to test that MathJax is working. MathJax allows you to embed Latex markup in an HTML page. MathJax Test Mat...

Objective-C provides several mechanisms for iterating through an array. One can Iterate the array by index Use an iterator to walk the ...

Bash and AWK are great tools for writing small programs. In this blog, we use AWK in a Bash script to print long lines in a file. longl...