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instantaneous rate of change at a given point
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A fluxion is the instantaneous rate of change, or gradient, of a fluent at a given point. Fluxions were introduced by Isaac Newton to describe his form of a time derivative. Newton introduced the concept in 1665 and detailed them in his mathematical treatise, Method of Fluxions. Fluxions and fluents made up Newton's early calculus.
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