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What does F' and F" mean?



Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
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I'm trying to learn what a Taylor series is, This is the equation I'm looking at and I know 0 calculus. I have been told that F'(x) is a derivative but what does F"(x) mean?










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    shouldn't it be "what do $F'$ and $F''$ mean?"
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I'm trying to learn what a Taylor series is, This is the equation I'm looking at and I know 0 calculus. I have been told that F'(x) is a derivative but what does F"(x) mean?










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    shouldn't it be "what do $F'$ and $F''$ mean?"
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    What do you mean? that's what I wrote.
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  • $begingroup$
    shouldn't it be "what do $F'$ and $F''$ mean?"
    $endgroup$
    – mathworker21
    27 mins ago










  • $begingroup$
    What do you mean? that's what I wrote.
    $endgroup$
    – Loren Meehan
    22 mins ago


















  • $begingroup$
    shouldn't it be "what do $F'$ and $F''$ mean?"
    $endgroup$
    – mathworker21
    27 mins ago










  • $begingroup$
    What do you mean? that's what I wrote.
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    – Loren Meehan
    22 mins ago
















$begingroup$
shouldn't it be "what do $F'$ and $F''$ mean?"
$endgroup$
– mathworker21
27 mins ago




$begingroup$
shouldn't it be "what do $F'$ and $F''$ mean?"
$endgroup$
– mathworker21
27 mins ago












$begingroup$
What do you mean? that's what I wrote.
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What do you mean? that's what I wrote.
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$f''$ denotes the second derivative of $f$; that is to say, it is the derivative of the derivative of $f$.






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    Don't beat yourself up over it, I can understand how it might happen for your first foray into calculus. A good chunk of the notation can be a bit unintuitive at times. :p
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$begingroup$

$f''$ denotes the second derivative of $f$; that is to say, it is the derivative of the derivative of $f$.






share|cite|improve this answer









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  • $begingroup$
    Thanks! I feel quite stupid now that I didn't figure that myself.
    $endgroup$
    – Loren Meehan
    23 mins ago










  • $begingroup$
    Don't beat yourself up over it, I can understand how it might happen for your first foray into calculus. A good chunk of the notation can be a bit unintuitive at times. :p
    $endgroup$
    – Eevee Trainer
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$f''$ denotes the second derivative of $f$; that is to say, it is the derivative of the derivative of $f$.






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    Don't beat yourself up over it, I can understand how it might happen for your first foray into calculus. A good chunk of the notation can be a bit unintuitive at times. :p
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    – Eevee Trainer
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    Thanks! I feel quite stupid now that I didn't figure that myself.
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    – Loren Meehan
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    Don't beat yourself up over it, I can understand how it might happen for your first foray into calculus. A good chunk of the notation can be a bit unintuitive at times. :p
    $endgroup$
    – Eevee Trainer
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Thanks! I feel quite stupid now that I didn't figure that myself.
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Thanks! I feel quite stupid now that I didn't figure that myself.
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Don't beat yourself up over it, I can understand how it might happen for your first foray into calculus. A good chunk of the notation can be a bit unintuitive at times. :p
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– Eevee Trainer
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Don't beat yourself up over it, I can understand how it might happen for your first foray into calculus. A good chunk of the notation can be a bit unintuitive at times. :p
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