A bug got into my graphing software and it is crawling around on a graph of y=x^4, in the first quandrant.  This special bug is following the curve in such a way that the x-coordinate is consistently changing at a rate of 2 mm/sec.  What is the rate of change of the y-coordinate, when y=256 mm?

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A bug got into my graphing software and it is crawling around on a graph of y=x^4, in the first quandrant.  This special bug is following the curve in such a way that the x-coordinate is consistently changing at a rate of 2 mm/sec.  What is the rate of change of the y-coordinate, when y=256 mm?

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