Rolle's theorem

Rolle's theorem
/rohlz/, Math.
the theorem that a differentiable function having equal values at the endpoints of an interval has a derivative equal to zero at some point in the interval.
[1890-95; named after Michel Rolle (d. 1719), French mathematician]

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Special case of the mean-value theorem of differential calculus.

It states that if a continuous curve passes through the x-axis twice within a given interval and has a unique tangent line at every point of that interval, then somewhere between the two points of interception it has a tangent parallel to the x-axis.

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