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The diagram illustrates the local accuracy of the tangent line approximation to a smooth curve, or--otherwise stated--the closeness of the differential of a function to the difference of function values due to a small increment of the independent variable.

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PhD Writtens Committee 2011-2012

Anar Akhmedov

John Baxter

Richard McGehee

Paul Garrett

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