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The derivative of a function $f(x)$ is defined as

\frac{df(x)}{dx} = lim_{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{f(x+h) - f(x)}{h}.

For numerical computation of the derivative, one uses this formula with a small value of h. One cannot take the limit of vanishing h on computer so some method has to be devised for this purpose.

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