The signum function is the derivative of the absolute value function, up to (but not including) the indeterminacy at zero. More formally, in integration theory it is a weak derivative , and in convex function theory the subdifferential of the absolute value at 0 is the interval [−1, 1] , "filling in" the sign function (the subdifferential of ... More @Wikipedia
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