Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?

In article <ss0ccj5l4ahkrl1c0hh4h73guccqtus89o@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:13:12 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:09:49 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
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They never even once mentioned that integration and differentiation
are inverses of each other? With various caveats and details, to be
sure.

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It was asserted, but never explained.  The two courses were entirely
separate.

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Ah, that would explain it. Neither course felt any obligation to
mention the other.
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My calculus tragedy involved a parallel physics course in which
everything we learned in calculus would have been of great
utility to the physics class of the week before.

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