Talk:Piecewise property

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Origin

A disambigation was requested at Talk:Piecewise_function#Requested_move_20_July_2024. I split the part here that did not apply to the new title. 142.113.140.146 (talk) 00:55, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 26 August 2024

It has been proposed in this section that Piecewise property be renamed and moved to Piecewise.

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Piecewise property → Piecewise – The "piecewise" isn’t a property in the way, say, the continuity is a property of a function. The same point has been made by other editors at Talk:Piecewise_function#Requested_move_20_July_2024. Taku (talk) 08:08, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support: "piecewise" is an adverb that describes how a property relates to a function, such as "piecewise differentiability". IntGrah (talk) 09:27, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Article titles should be WP:NOUNs. In any case, "piecewise" is a property of a definition of the function, whereas e.g. piecewise continuous is a property of the function itself. Tercer (talk) 09:50, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt Piecewise (disambiguation) to fix the {{redir}} hatnote WP:INTDAB. Not just Piecewise because a piecewise function is the topic most discussed in math resources and "whatever readers might type in the search box". The parentheses alleviate the NOUN ~~and internal-only property~~ comments my previous RM made and others reiterated here 142.113.140.146 (talk) 10:28, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: there is very little new content here, it'd be easier to merge it into a section of the main article, e.g., Piecewise-defined function#Generalizations (or "Extensions" or "Related concepts"). fgnievinski (talk) 13:38, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. This isn't an article, so it doesn't need to strictly adhere to the WP:NOUN principle. It's simply there to disambiguate between different usages of piecewise on the project. — Amakuru (talk) 10:25, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Definition

(refactored from Talk:Piecewise_property#Requested_move_26_August_2024)

Is piecewise [~~continuous~~ differentiable] [really] a property of the function itself? The absolute value piecewise-defined function is. But counterexample:

\left|\sin(x)\right|

with domain restriction

\left[0,4\right]

is non-differentiable at

\pi

and is defined using 1 subfunction. Redefine it with 2 identical subfunctions and it becomes piecewise differentiable. These are contradictory properties as "the function itself" is the same under equality of

(x,y)

pairs. ~~142.113.140.146 (talk) 10:51, 26 August 2024 (UTC)~~ 174.89.12.36 (talk) 23:44, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is always piecewise differentiable, doesn't matter how you define it. Tercer (talk) 14:09, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So you're saying it's iff it admits a definition that is. ~~The article should say that.~~ I added it. ~~142.113.140.146 (talk) 18:20, 26 August 2024 (UTC)~~ 174.89.12.36 (talk) 23:44, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really see where that College Board source you cited asserts a different meaning of piecewise differentiability. SilverLocust 💬 22:57, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SilverLocust: The College Board source's Theorem 2 requires the definition to be examined for $p(x)$ and $q(x)$ . This is not a different meaning but the article's original definition. The next 2 sources contain the generalization in this thread. The Nikolsky source does not require a definition (see no {), and supports the new claim doesn't matter how you define it. 174.89.12.36 (talk) 23:54, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't even mention piecewise differentiability anywhere, just differentiability of a piecewise-defined function at a point. SilverLocust 💬 00:26, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Idk how to fix this, so I put up a {{bsn}}. I prefer Tercer's generalization, but the rest of the article uses the version that looks at the subfunctions. 174.89.12.36 (talk) 01:44, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]