What does $F'$ and $F''$ mean?

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I'm trying to learn what a Taylor series is, This is the equation I'm looking at and I know 0 calculus. I have been told that $F'(x)$ is a derivative but what does $F''(x)$ mean?

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$f''$ denotes the second derivative of $f$; that is to say, it is the derivative of the derivative of $f$.

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