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All right. Let's take a look at the tangent lines (and hence the derivatives) at these points:
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Here, notice that since f and g are symmetric about the main diagonal, the same should be true of their derivatives. That is, the derivatives of the corresponding points should be reciprocal of each other — as can be confirmed below by letting the parameter 'a' runs on its own:
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In other words, the derivative of a function at a point, is the reciprocal of the derivative of its inverse function at its correlate — a fact known as the Inverse Function Theorem. For more, see https://mathvault.ca/derivative-inverse-functions
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