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Categories: History of calculus, Mathematics of infinitesimals, Mathematical notation, Gottfried Leibniz, Differential calculus
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Leibniz's notation  D/dx  Df/dx  Dy/dx  Dy dx
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In calculus, Leibniz's notation, named in honor of the 17th-century German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, uses the symbols dx and dy to represent infinitely small increments of x and y, respectively, just as Δx and Δy represent finite increments of x and y, respectively. Wikipedia
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In calculus, Leibniz's notation, named in honor of the 17th-century German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, uses the symbols dx and dy to represent infinitely small increments of x and y, respectively, just as Δx and Δy represent finite increments of x and y, respectively. Wikipedia
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