Definitions of Fractional derivative

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how many definitions appart from the 'Riemann-Liouville differintegral' to define the fractional derivative of f(x) or [tex]x^{a}f(x)[/tex] for real or complex 'a' are them all equivalents??
 
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The other variation is the Grunwald-Letnikov Derivative, and all definitions are equivalent. It's pretty pointless if you have 2 different definitions for the same thing..
 
I heard also about Hadamard and Caputo derivatives for fractional calculus could anyone give a link with the definition?

a great inconvenient i see to Riemann-Liouville differintegral is the fact that for an integer m you must calculate expression [tex]\frac{d^{m}}{dx^{m}}[/tex]