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by dehrmann 472 days ago
>> 99.9% of people couldn't tell you the difference between a derivative and a integral.

> I have an engineering degree and I can’t remember the difference

Really? I realized I forgot the mechanics of computing the closed-form solutions (like you, I used this type of calculus for maybe four years of my life), but the idea of derivatives being the rate of change stuck with me.

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And integrals are the sum of things.