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>That every symbolic expression recursively built from differentiable elementary functions has a derivative that can also be written as a recursive combination of elementary functions, although the latter expression may require vastly more terms.

Lisp programmers disagree from the first lesson at learning Lisp.



I'm a quarter century into Lisp and don't see what to disagree with.

E.g. look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_rule


It was about requiring vastly more terms.




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