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To: SoothingDave
That's great except nobody ever gets to discover calculus.

If "calculus" is in there to be discovered, and someone wants to learn, he/she will surely get there.

1,121 posted on 10/18/2001 9:22:33 PM PDT by hopefulpilgrim
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To: hopefulpilgrim
That's great except nobody ever gets to discover calculus.

If "calculus" is in there to be discovered, and someone wants to learn, he/she will surely get there.

True. But consider this. Those of us who know calculus have to take a constant beating from well-intentioned but mathematically uncurious people for "inventing" things that aren't in their "elementary mathematics" book. And rather than try to understand that the elements of elmentary math go together to make up calculus, they call us devils for refusing to stick to "just the elementary math book."

SD

1,162 posted on 10/19/2001 6:49:23 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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