WH54 Fachwortlexikon
Lernwerkstatt Aachen GbR
Mathematik | Physik | Chemie


Sattelpunkt


... is German for => saddle point


In calculus, a saddle point is a point on a graph. It always has a horizontal slope but it is neither a local minimum nor a local maximum. Unlike minima or maxima the slope does not change from negative to positive (or vice versa).





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