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Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) by hilop on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:13PM (#12749384)
You just use discrete scenarios, not continuous. Same concepts, easier math.

same way you can do linear geometry without calculus.

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Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012) by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @11:02PM (#12749497)
In my experience, just knowing discrete probability and statistics is profoundly unuseful, especially when you walk out of class thinking you know the subject, sign up for a next course that involves real-valued quantities, and bomb everything.
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