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04.06.05

Critical Points - are the horizontal tangents enough?

Posted in Math at 7:27 am by leingang

I wrote a notebook called
Critical Points to demonstrate why we need to look at all critical points of a function, not just the points with horizontal tangents, to find local maxima and minima.

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