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Prove me wrong !!

Unread post by sakibtanvir » Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:50 pm

We know that,\[\frac{\partial }{\partial x}(x^2)=2x
\]We also know that,\[x^2=(x+x+x+x+x....+x)
\]($x$ times).Now,\[\frac{\partial }{\partial x}(x^2)
\]
\[=\frac{\partial }{\partial x}(x+x+x+x...x)
\]
\[=(1+1+1+....+1)
\]\[=x
\]






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Re: Prove me wrong !!

Unread post by Phlembac Adib Hasan » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:43 pm

Look, you are finding derivative for real $x$s.But you can write $x^2=x+x+x...+x\; \; $ ($x$ times) only for integer $x$s.If x is not integer, you have to write $x^2=x+x+...+x\; \; (\left \lfloor x \right \rfloor-1) \; \; times\; \; +${$x$}$x$.So you can not say that.This is the mistake,I think.
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Re: Prove me wrong !!

Unread post by sm.joty » Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:43 pm

Phlembac Adib Hasan wrote:Look, you are finding derivative for real $x$s.But you can write $x^2=x+x+x...+x\; \; $ ($x$ times) only for integer $x$s.If x is not integer, you have to write $x^2=x+x+...+x\; \; (\left \lfloor x \right \rfloor-1) \; \; times\; \; +${$x$}$x$.So you can not say that.This is the mistake,I think.
No the actual fact is not that. Note that you here don't consider the fact of constant and variable. Shakib here treated the variable as a constant. But note that $x^2=(x+x+x+x+x....+x)$ is a function of $x$ thus you can't take it as a constant.

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