CALCULUS

( is the tolerance (or h value) used by the calculator in the computation; it has a default value of ( = 0.001 if not specified in the parameter list when the function is called. The . nDeriv(function uses the “symmetric quotient difference method,” which approximates the derivative as the slope of a secant line through the given point. ................
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