Example · High school

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TermThis exampleWhy
differentiable ✓
continuously differentiable ✓ $x \mapsto \sin x$ is smooth, continuously differentiable, and differentiable, because it is analytic.
smooth ✓
analytic ✓ $\sin$ is analytic because its Taylor series converges to it everywhere.
polynomial function ✗ $\sin x$ is not a polynomial function. It has infinitely many roots, but a nonzero polynomial has only finitely many.
convex function ✗ The function $\sin$ is not convex, because its second derivative, $-\sin x$, is negative on $(0, \pi)$.

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