Who is "they"? To which "Difference Quotient formula" are you making reference? Where is the "H", and for what does it stand?In Difference Quotient formula why specifically do they use the letter H, does that have any actuall meaning? is it an abbreviation for something or did they just pick it randomly?
Who is "they"? To which "Difference Quotient formula" are you making reference? Where is the "H", and for what does it stand?
Please be complete. Thank you.
did whoever decided to use H just pick it randomly with no real reason behind it.
did whoever decided to use H just pick it randomly with no real reason behind it
h has become commonly used when expressing an arbitrary "horizontal" distance along the x-axis.
I believe the choice of h is simply traditional. As you see, I used x = x1 and h=d (above) when it suited me (and I supplied definitions).