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Bruno Tolentino
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I know several math formulas, like which I will write below.
[tex]\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx[/tex]
[tex]\frac{\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx}{x_1-x_0}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx}{2}[/tex]
[tex]f(x_1) - f(x_0)[/tex]
[tex]\frac{f(x_1) - f(x_0)}{x_1-x_0}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{f(x_1) - f(x_0)}{2}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{f(x_1) + f(x_0)}{2}[/tex]
And I know too that all equations above are importants, appears with very often. But my doubt is the following:
My head is confused, are to much equations and concepts disconnected. I know that the inverse analog of derivative is the primitive, but what's the inverse analog of the arithmetic mean? If the AM of two numbers is (a+b)/2, so the analog inverse is (a-b)/2? And what's the inverse analog of (a+b+c)/3? What's the difference between the equations that I posted above!? What's the inverse analogo of each equation that I wrote above?
 
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Bruno Tolentino said:
I know several math formulas, like which I will write below.
[tex]\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx[/tex]
[tex]\frac{\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx}{x_1-x_0}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx}{2}[/tex]
[tex]f(x_1) - f(x_0)[/tex]
[tex]\frac{f(x_1) - f(x_0)}{x_1-x_0}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{f(x_1) - f(x_0)}{2}[/tex]
[tex]\frac{f(x_1) + f(x_0)}{2}[/tex]
And I know too that all equations above are importants,
None of the above is an equation, so none would be considered a formula. They are all expressions.
Writing them as you have above is a meaningless exercise if you don't know what they represent.
##\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx ## -- Could be the area under the graph of y = f(x) between x = 0 and x = 1 (depending on what the function is)
##\frac{\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx}{x_1-x_0} ## -- Average value of f on the interval [0, 1]
##\frac{\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx}{2} ## -- No significant meaning
## f(x_1) - f(x_0)## -- Vertical distance between two points on the graph of f
## \frac{f(x_1) - f(x_0)}{x_1-x_0}## -- Slope of the secant line between the points ##(x_0, f(x_0))## and ##(x_1, f(x_1))##
## \frac{f(x_1) - f(x_0)}{2}## -- No significant meaning
## \frac{f(x_1) + f(x_0)}{2} ## -- Average (or mean) of two function values
Bruno Tolentino said:
appears with very often. But my doubt is the following:
My head is confused, are to much equations and concepts disconnected. I know that the inverse analog of derivative is the primitive, but what's the inverse analog of the arithmetic mean?
None that I'm aware of.
Bruno Tolentino said:
If the AM of two numbers is (a+b)/2, so the analog inverse is (a-b)/2?
There's no such concept, as far as I know.
Bruno Tolentino said:
And what's the inverse analog of (a+b+c)/3?
There is none.
Bruno Tolentino said:
What's the difference between the equations that I posted above!?
Again, none of the things you posted is an equation. An equation states that two expressions are equal (i.e., has = in it).
Bruno Tolentino said:
What's the inverse analogo of each equation that I wrote above?
The question is meaningless.