How do you compute the 200th derivative of f(x)=sin(2x)?

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Ananda Dasgupta
May 21, 2018

2^200 sin(2x)

Explanation:

f(x) = sin(2x) implies
d/dx f(x) = 2 cos(2x) implies
d^2/dx^2 f(x) = -2^2 sin(2x) implies
d^3/dx^3 f(x) = -2^3 cos(2x) implies
d^4/dx^4 f(x) = 2^4 sin(2x) implies

This means that differentiating f(x) 4 times results in the same function, with a multiplying factor of 4.

Differentiating 200 times is the same as repeating the above 50 times, and so

d^200/dx^200 f(x) = (2^4 )^50sin(2x) = 2^200 sin(2x)

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