Re:Donald Knuth's letter about teaching O notation in calcul...
by yummyfajitas on Monday April 14, 2008 @06:34PM
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Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Calculus is a fundamental topic, and even in computer science. Trig substitution is the bathwater. Curvature, tangent and normal are the baby, and they can be handy when you need them.
Calculus is a fundamental topic, and even in computer science. Trig substitution is the bathwater. Curvature, tangent and normal are the baby, and they can be handy when you need them.