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yeahmoon
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Elasticity, what else?

October 18th, 2016, 10:00 pm

The term $$\dfrac{\partial^n f}{\partial x^n}\dfrac{x^n}{f^n}$$ is called elasticity when $n=1$. I am wondering what is the names for $n=2, 3, 4$, respectively.
 
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Re: Elasticity, what else?

October 23rd, 2016, 8:03 am

I don't think there are names other than for n=1. Just like

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Re: Elasticity, what else?

December 13th, 2016, 3:13 pm

The term $$\dfrac{\partial^n f}{\partial x^n}\dfrac{x^n}{f^n}$$ is called elasticity when $n=1$. I am wondering what is the names for $n=2, 3, 4$, respectively.