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That's a weird analogy. Most calculators are useless for calculus. Edit: I wonder if that was written using the program... Edit2: actually wrote it in the pro
by soperj 7y ago
That's a weird analogy. Most calculators are useless for calculus.
Edit: I wonder if that was written using the program...
Edit2: actually wrote it in the program:
It is to writing, what calculators -> are to math.
So program is smarter than the people doing the copy.
- Invictus0 7y agoOr a perfect analogy, because this tool is useless for writing.
- dr_dshiv 7y agoOr a perfect analogy, because this tool is useless for writing. But there is a perfect analogy for writing: the first time you see something, and you don't know how to describe it or even whether it's good or bad or ugly.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- mighty_bander 7y agoThat's what I thought too. I was expecting a humourous article about the pointlessness of some tool.
- Thrymr 7y agowhoosh
- noobermin 7y agoAnnoying pedantry, (but fitting for HN), calculators are actually a very nice tool for initiating students onto the idea of a limit by having them calculate closer and closer values to a limit that can't be evaluated on the point. Of course, analysis fundamentally is about just that, approximation in calculations although people don't manually calculate derivatives or the like today.
- zrobotics 7y agoThey're fine for finding a numerical output (definite integrals & the like) but at that point the calculus is mostly finished and it's more algebra than anything else.