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the direction of the vector.

The gradient is related to the differential by the formula

for any , where is the dot product: taking the dot product of a vector with the gradient is the same as taking the directional derivative along the vector.

If is viewed as the space of (dimension ) column vectors (of real numbers), then one can regard as the row vector with components

so that is given by matrix multiplication. Assuming the

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