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2008 Oct 12
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numeric derivation
Hello, I don't understand the description / help-text for the numericDeriv() function. Why is there a new environment used? And what is meant with an environment here? Is it similar or the same as a local workspace, like an environment in functional languages? And why is it needed here? numericDeriv could just calculate the difference bewtween two values and divide this difference by the