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Re:Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, an... by lopotubez on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:12AM (#50350529)
Who needs calculus anyways? I'd rather focus learning linear algebra especially after realizing a derivative is just a linear transformation and integration problems share a lot with determinants (areas).

Maybe so many more people would engage with mathemathics when they realize this.

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Re:Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, an... by karmakurtisaani on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:13AM (#50352241)
> Who needs calculus anyways?

I can't really think of anyone. Maybe just mathematicians, physicists, economists, computer scientists, chemists and engineers. Apparently they even use something called back propagation in AI training, which is nothing but chain rule from ... calculus.

But yeah, I can't see it being relevant since we have linear algebra already.

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Re:Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, an... by dist-epoch on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:33AM (#50352471)
Applied calculus doesn't need infinities. No computer can represent a real real number. Only truncations of them, only finite versions of them.
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