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when we define the derivative of f(x) as f'(x) = lim h->0 [f(x+h)-f(x)]/h
or f'(x) is approximately equal to [f(x+h)-f(x)]/h, where h is finitely small.
The difference between the first formula and this approximation is known as discretization error.