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Fermat differentiation is a type of differentiation. The Fermat derivative was first defined by Pierre de Fermat and resulted from his work in combinatorics. The Fermat derivative is written as and is defined for polynomials as:

where is the degree of .

The Fermat derivative measures the rate of change of the Fermat equation

For example, let . The Fermat derivative is therefore . The corresponding Fermat equation is therefore . The rate of change at point is equal to , which is . For example, at , the rate of change of is .

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