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by globular-toast 1788 days ago
That's the thing. What tends to stick in people's heads is the bit that hurts. You can tell someone that integration is "just a continuous sum" and you might see a ligthbulb go on. But then the bad news: you still need to find this magical function F(x) and to do that requires intuition and guesswork. Understanding it's "just a sum" doesn't help at all with finding the antiderivative.
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> Understanding it's "just a sum" doesn't help at all with finding the antiderivative

No, but you can still integrate computationally (difference method).