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27 Comments

  1. This video was taken when I was 1 year old and still rocks about math 🤘But I have a simple question how we know that as Δx approaches to 0 is just basically zero? Are binomial functions continuous? If not shouldn't we consider the right and the left limits?

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  3. When I first watched this I was not able to understand almost anything. I spent hours in youtube trying to learn what factorials are, then what the combination formula is, then what the Summution symbol does, then how the Binomial theorem works and now I was able to finally understand this video. I learned so much more than just why (x^n)' = x * n^(n -1) it was a really cool math adventure

  4. When i saw this formula first time, it hurt my head hard cuz i wasnt able to comprehend it why is it so. I didnt want to just memorize it. Thank you Sal!

  5. in school we have a different proof

    think of some function of (x)

    We know that it's y = f(x)

    Now we move a distance of h so new x axis is x+h so our new y is f(x+h)

    so we have
    Point1 = x , f(x)
    Point2 = x+h , f(x+h)

    and now we use a slope formula

    (f(x+h) – f(x))/(x – x+h)

    lim h -> 0

    now to prove it, put in some numbers like x^7 + 9x^5

  6. Thanks, this will make for some great notes, now that I´m revising to take my math exam 1 year before time, it does hele to have it all explained again, now that I`m not actually taught in it yet. Thanks

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