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[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I mean they're right, Leibniz used a modified s for summa, sum. And an integral is just a sum, an infinite sum over infinitesimal summands, but a sum nevertheless.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, they are right about that being the general concept. I only take issue with the implication that it's equally simple.

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