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Symbolic Differentiation
Overview
In this problem set, you'll get more practice with accumulate, and work with the Scheme symbolic differentiator.
The material is available at https://grader.cs.uml.edu/assignments/361.
Reading
Before doing this problem set, read the following material:
Exercises
1. Exercise 2.36 on pp. 120, accumulating with lists of lists.
2. Exercise 2.53 on pp. 144, testing quote, pair?, and memq.
3. Exercise 2.54 on pp. 145, building your own version of equal?.
4. Exercise 2.55 on pp. 145, pushing the limits of quote.
Small Implementation Projects
For the next two problems, refer to the symbolic differentiation code in the grader download.
5. Exercise 2.57 on pp. 151, extending the differentiator to handle arbitrary sums and products.
6. Exercise 2.58 on pp. 151, converting the differentiator to infix. Do subproblem (a) only.