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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:07:01 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <ss0ccj5l4ahkrl1c0hh4h73guccqtus89o@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:13:12 -0400, Joy Beeson
><jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:09:49 -0700, Paul S Person
>><psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> They never even once mentioned that integration and differentiation
>>> are inverses of each other? With various caveats and details, to be
>>> sure.
>>
>>It was asserted, but never explained.  The two courses were entirely
>>separate.
>
>Ah, that would explain it. Neither course felt any obligation to
>mention the other.
>
My calculus tragedy involved a parallel physics course in which 
everything we learned in calculus would have been of great 
utility to the physics class of the week before.

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