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An integrable example on the whole real line is the tent function
It is not differentiable at . For a test function , split the integral into and and use integration by parts. The endpoint terms at vanish because , and those at zero cancel because is continuous. The result is . Thus the corners obstruct classical differentiability but not this weak derivative.

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