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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: Quantum mystics
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:52:01 +0200
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On 6/10/24 20:52, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:55:47 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/10/24 10:14, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>> Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... I was ok with mathematics in school until we started
>>>> on calculus. I could not, and still cannot, understand concepts such as
>>>> "vanishingly small".
>>>
>>>
>>> Calculus is to arithmetic what astrology is to astronomy.
>>
>> Now now, that's unjustified. Calculus is eminently useful
>> and perfectly rigorous.
>>
>> Mathematics is a tool chest. Unfortunately, the way it's
>> taught, few people end up being able to use the tools.
>>
>> Jeroen Belleman
> 
> How often do you use real, symbolic calculus?

Not all that often. For most functions I encounter, I
already know the solution.

> 
> Solving differential equations?

 From time to time, using Laplace for the continuous domain,
and Z-transforms for discrete-time things.

Jeroen Belleman