Tangent to a Curve

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Show the tangent line at to the curve .

Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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— coefficient of

— coefficient of

— coefficient of

-coordinate of the tangent point

Snapshot 1: The tangent line at for .

Snapshot 2: The tangent line at for .

Snapshot 3: The tangent line at InlineMath=-1 for .



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