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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ib Paper 2 3G c Solution by
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The function is differentiable everywhere: for , its derivative is , while at zero the difference quotient is .
The function is differentiable for , with derivative . At zero its difference quotient is , which has no finite limit. Applying the coordinatewise-sum argument givesAt those points,where the first coefficient is zero at . At any point with , the restriction to the vertical coordinate line already fails to be differentiable.
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