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===Remarks=== * If {{mvar|f}} is convex or concave, then the right- and left-hand derivatives exist at every inner point, hence the above limits exist and are real numbers. * This generalized version of the theorem is sufficient to prove [[Convex function|convexity]] when the one-sided derivatives are [[monotonically increasing]]:<ref>{{citation |last=Artin |first=Emil |author-link=Emil Artin |translator-first= Michael |translator-last= Butler |title=The Gamma Function |orig-year=1931 |year=1964 |publisher=[[Henry Holt and Company|Holt, Rinehart and Winston]] |pages=3β4}}.</ref> <math display="block">f'(x^-) \le f'(x^+) \le f'(y^-),\quad x < y.</math>
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