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 one-sided derivative, its interpretation
Сообщение16.04.2012, 19:15 
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The situation which follows I could not find in (school) textbook. Let be the function $f\colon[0,\,+\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$:
$$f(x)=\left\{
\begin{array}{rl}
1 & \mbox{if $x=0$}\\
\sqrt{x} & \mbox{if $x>0$.}
\end{array}\right.}$$

Then right derivative at $x=0$ is
$$f_r^\prime (x)=\lim_{x\rightarrow +0}{\frac{\sqrt{x}-1}{x}}=-\infty$$
What is then the geometric interpretation of this?

 
 
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