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Gradients and derivatives

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What is difference between a gradient and a derivative?

A derivative is in one variable, e.g. dx/dy; a direction can be inferred by the sign

A gradient is in more than one variable, and is explicitly a vector

The derivative is basically the 1-D case of the gradient

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