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Revision 9 . . December 6, 2001 4:19 am by AxelBoldt [More general version]
Revision 8 . . December 4, 2001 7:30 am by AxelBoldt [+mean value theorems for integration]
Revision 7 . . December 4, 2001 2:04 am by AxelBoldt [copyedit]
Revision 6 . . (edit) August 6, 2001 8:25 pm by FallenAngel
  

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Generalization: The theorem is usually stated in the form above, but it is actually valid in a slightly more general setting:
We only need to assume that f : [a , b] -> R is continuous on [a , b], and that for every x in (a , b) the limit limh->0 (f(x+h)-f(x))/h exists or is equal to +/- infinity.


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