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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:

def derivative(self,*args):
        '''
        Returns the derivative of the function with respect to the first dimension.
        '''
        if self.i_dim == 0:
            return np.ones_like(*args[0])
        else:
            return np.zeros_like(*args[0])