QBank 5: Q5.10

Discussion in 'CT8' started by jensen, Mar 16, 2008.

  1. jensen

    jensen Member

    In solution for part iv, when we differentiate the RHS of (iii) wrt x_i, what happened to the summands? Is this how we differentiate a summation?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Mike Lewry

    Mike Lewry Member

    Q&A Bank 5.10

    When you write out the summation in full, you get terms in x(1), x(2), ..., x(n). When you differentiate wrt x(1), the only term giving a non-zero result is the first one, so we don't need a summation in the first term once we've differentiated.
     

Share This Page