Negative Derivative: Learn Meaning & Examples

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Hello,

What negative derivative means like this one:

[tex]\frac{\partial^{-1}}{\partial\,x^{-1}}[/tex]

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I honestly have never seen such a notation but I would suspect the "inverse" derivative is the anti-derivative or indefinite integral. (I have seen this written "D-1 f" for anti-derivative.)