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In this process of differentiation there is involved no attempt to determine empirically an equation capable of representing the given data sufficiently well to admit differentiation. On the contrary, a differentiating tool is applied successively to various small sections of the data. This tool is the fourth degree polynomial determined by five points.
George Rutledge (1932) studied this question.
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