Dash Insert drop-down menu. Dash The dash is a punctuation mark that is similar in appearance to and , but differs from these symbols in both length and height. The most common versions of the dash are the en dash (–), equal to half the height of the font; the em dash (—), twice as long as the en dash; and the horizontal bar (―), whose length varies across typefaces. Historically, the names of en dash and em dash were loosely related to the width of a lower-case "n" and upper-case "M", respectively, in commonly used typefaces. Usage varies both within
Chain rule a variable "z" depends on the variable "y", which itself depends on the variable "x", so that "y" and "z" are therefore dependent variables, then "z", via the intermediate variable of "y", depends on "x" as well. The chain rule then states, The two versions of the chain rule are related; if formula_4 and formula_5, then In integration, the counterpart to the chain rule is the substitution rule. The chain rule seems to have first been used by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He used it to calculate the derivative of formula_7 as the composite of the square root function and the