Monday, 26 August 2013

Leibniz notation for high order derivatives – math.stackexchange.com

Leibniz notation for high order derivatives – math.stackexchange.com

What is the reason for the positioning of the superscript $n$ in an
$n$-order derivative $\frac{d^ny}{dx^n}$? Is it just a convention or does
it have some mathematical meaning?

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