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4. Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Prentice Hall Slide 3- 4 What you’ll learn about Derivative of e x Derivative of a x Derivative of ln x Derivative of log a x Power Rule for Arbitrary Real Powers … and why The relationship between exponential and logarithmic functions provides a powerful differentiation tool called logarithmic differentiation.

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12. Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Prentice Hall Slide 3- 12 Logarithmic Differentiation Sometimes the properties of logarithms can be used to simplify the differentiation process, even if logarithms themselves must be introduced as a step in the process. The process of introducing logarithms before differentiating is called logarithmic differentiation.

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