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I agree with that. You can hand limits as a tool to someone already comfortable with the concepts and present them as a way to quantify their intuitive understa
by mclehman 9y ago
I agree with that. You can hand limits as a tool to someone already comfortable with the concepts and present them as a way to quantify their intuitive understanding.
- mannykannot 9y agoBut without limits, you cannot actually do much with the concepts. Whether you call limits a concept or a tool, they are essential to the practice of calculus, and, historically, to its emergence (and not trivially so, either.)
- throwawayjava 9y agoYeah but you can do well on the AP calculus exam without understanding limits, if you can calculate derivatives and solve some word problems related to derivatives. Hence, the gap between "5 year old calculus" and "high school calculus" is smaller than the gap between "high school calculus" and "actual calculus"
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