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Peer reviewedMorgan, Raymond V.; Warnock, Tony T. – Mathematics Teacher, 1978
The purpose of this article is to point out some of the problems that arise in the use of calculators to illustrate derivatives, due to rounding or truncation, by the calculator. Several illustrations of numerical differentiation techniques are also given. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Calculators, Calculus, Error Patterns, Mathematics
