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In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the second derivative test determines whether a given stationary point of a function is a maximum or a minimum.
The test states: If the function f is twice differentiable in a neighbourhood of a stationary point x, then:
Note that if f''(x) = 0 the second derivative test says nothing about the point x.
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