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		MichaelDickens on Nov 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'cont... By my thinking: - price is 0th derivative - inflation is 1st derivative (change in average price) - rate of increase in inflation is 2nd derivative - that rate of increase is decreasing — 3rd derivative So I think Nixon is talking about a negative 3rd derivative of price. Am I missing one?

nullc on Nov 5, 2022 [–]

Ah, my thinking was that since the "rate of increase" is something changing, Nixon was taking about the next derivative being non-zero. :)

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