Also, “identical” has a different meaning here.

There’s a special place in hell for the monster who dreamed up this captcha!

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    That requires neither engineering-level math nor paper nor patience. All you need is the chain rule and some basic knowledge of sine and cosine:

    The derivative of cos is -sin, but because of the 6x you get an extra factor 6. The sine function is periodic on 2pi, so sin(6*2pi + pi/2) = sin(pi/2) = 1. So the result is -36

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      It’s called engineering level math because engineers, physicists, and math majors are required to take Calculus.

      Yes I took calculus in high school but it’s not required. No I don’t remember much of any of it because it was decades ago.

      You also learned all the countries/capitals in Africa when you were in middle school. But I bet you can’t name them now without Google. Same thing.

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      29 days ago
      • § d/dx: 6cos(6x + Pi/2)
      • = d/dx: -6sin(6x)
      • = -36 cos(6x)
      • = -36, when x = 2Pi