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point, shouldn’t that second point just be indistinguishable from the first? Let’s try an example: Say we have the function f(x)=x². Let’s find the “derivative” of f(x) at x=2. As our previous equation found the derivative at some point x₁, let’s replace x₁ with 2 to find the derivative at x=2: If