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of three or more functions, to a rule for higher-order derivatives of a product, and to other contexts.

Discovery

Discovery of this rule is credited to Gottfried Leibniz, who demonstrated it using "infinitesimals" (a precursor to the modern differential). (However, J. M. Child, a translator of Leibniz's papers, argues that it is due to Isaac Barrow.)

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