Zero derivative implies locally constant

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Statement

For an interval in the domain

Suppose is a function and is an interval (possibly open, closed, or half-open and half-closed) contained inside the domain of such that for all in the interior of and is continuous on all of (note that we do not require differentiability, or even one-sided differentiability, at the endpoints of , if any). Then, is a constant function on all of , i.e. there is a real number such that for all .