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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it. What is the progression in this supposed to be?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My interpretation is that Jon starts talking about how division by 0 is not possible. Garfield then goes on about how we can use limits to assign values to such expressions, which we can use to calculate derivatives. I guess Garfield starts to question whether dy/dx really exists after all this.

Jon then changes the subject to be about integrals, which Garfield is immediately annoyed about the missing +C.

It’s super funny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Haha thanks for the explanation :) Actually figuring out that Jon cannot hear Garfields thoughts and that Garfield is always a step ahead of him made it much easier to understand

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is the +C "new"? I have a B.Sc majoring in mathematics. Now I graduated over 30 years ago and I never used much that I leaned in my degree during my career - so I couldn't differentiate or integrate to save my life today. But, the equations at least look familiar. The +C does not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Definitely not new. However, in many practical applications you can sorta kinda ignore it (but definitely not all!).