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We investigate several natural questions on the differentiability of certain strictly increasing singular functions. Furthermore, motivated by the observation that for each famous singular function f investigated in the past, f'(ξ) = 0 if f'(ξ) exists and is finite, we show how, for example, an increasing real function g can be constructed so that $g'(x) = 2^{x}$ for all rational numbers x and g'(x) = 0 for almost all irrational numbers x.