On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:07:08 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 31/08/2012 07:01 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:
>> As one of my teachers used to say: "You don't need to remember all of
>> this stuff [he was talking about various heat transfer differential
>> equations]... You just need to remember in which book you read it!"
> 
> Sure. But if you don't even know what the hell a differential equation
> /is/... Well, maybe you can find the answer in a book. But I would
> suggest you won't do very well trying to solve questions that come up in
> the real job rather than in a test paper...

I've worked a number of jobs since I took differential calculus, and I've 
never had to use it.  (Though arguably, I have actually used it, but it 
wasn't a necessity - I was curious about the rate that a change was 
taking place in, don't even remember what it was now).

Jim

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