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From: nemesis
Date: 10 Dec 2010 12:55:42
Message: <4d02699e$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible escreveu:
> At this point DKJ peered over my shoulder, and pointed out that what I 
> had just done was "integral calculus", and some guy called Laplace had 
> invented it 200 years ago. He showed me the general formula for 
> integrating a polynomial. I was kind of suspicious at the exact integral 
> coefficients; of all the possible real numbers in existence, that seems 
> like a rather large coincidence. None the less, I went home and managed 
> to find my dad's old calculus book.
> 
> Now it actually made perfect sense. :-P

You should really have gone to a special school of another kind.  Your 
parents didn't realize your math brain was running faster than those of 
other kids of your age...

calculus is tough for anyone.  I wouldn't ever be able to grasp it while 
a teen...

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