antiderivative
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of antiderivative
First recorded in 1940–45; anti- + derivative
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Also, just as we can calculate the derivative of a vector- valued function by differentiating the component functions separately, we can calculate the antiderivative in the same manner.
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Specifically, it guarantees that any continuous function has an antiderivative.
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Second, we show how power series can be used to evaluate integrals when the antiderivative of the integrand cannot be expressed in terms of elementary functions.
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It almost seems too simple that the area of an entire curved region can be calculated by just evaluating an antiderivative at the first and last endpoints of an interval.
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Notice that we did not include the “+ C” term when we wrote the antiderivative.
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