The Taylor Center:

The same is true also for a more general expression u( with a non-integer ( at u=0, and for arcsin(u) at u=1, and similar. Those were examples of the points of branch singularity at which the value of the function itself is defined (and computed in typical computer systems), yet its derivatives of order 1 and higher do not exist. ................
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