| Sorry if this is too elementary. I want to graph the derivative of a function y that is given implicitly as a function of x. I would appreciate any suggestions. |
| Unfortunately, this is pretty hard to do in Sage. Even this attempt (eventually) fails: I don't know that this is easy to fix in general, either, because of course derivatives in implicit functions can be arbitrarily complicated to solve for, and so not necessarily accessible to a computer method. I don't think there are any numerical methods for doing this. |
| Surely there is a way to do this numerically, isn't there? What I mean is that one should be able to write a function which, for a given numerical value of Of course this won't work for every implicitly defined function, but sage's numerics should work for a lot of cases that users actually want. But I don't know enough about sage symbolics to actually do this. Any takers? |
| You can try this: This way you avoid the "solve" issue. |
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