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Simple example: monitoring your systems when data only increases, like number of hits to your site or queries to the db. That graph is always up and to the righ
by sethammons 6y ago
Simple example: monitoring your systems when data only increases, like number of hits to your site or queries to the db. That graph is always up and to the right. However, if you look at the rate of change (cough, derivative/calculus), the graph now tells you interesting things. Granted, the calculus understanding there is superficial, but it is there!
- dlubarov 6y agoWe can talk about those things without the language of calculus, though: "this graph shows requests per second, and that graph shows cumulative requests." And I think it should be clear how to derive one graph from the other, with or without calculus training. IMX numerical integration is useful in some areas (like physics simulations), but I haven't encountered any non-trivial applications of the kind of calculus that's taught in most schools, which focuses on continuous functions over the reals.