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To: thesharkboy

Yep, NO flaw found here, either, and I use calculus in my job as an engineer. Who thinks dy/dx is a fraction?


21 posted on 04/11/2019 2:59:15 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: backwoods-engineer
Who thinks dy/dx is a fraction?

Agreed, I never thought of it that way, just viewed it as a notational convention. You can argue that Δy/Δx is in fact a fraction and that reducing that to the infinitesimal dy/dx doesn’t change the nature of it, but in real life nobody I know thinks of it or uses it that way.

23 posted on 04/11/2019 3:58:57 PM PDT by SFConservative
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