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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

Mathematicians will in one breath tell you they aren't fractions, then in the next tell you dz/dx = dz/dy * dy/dx

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Not very good mathematicians if they tell you they aren't fractions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

This is until you do multivariate functions. Then you get for f(x(t), y(t)) this: df/dt = df/dx * dx/dt + df/dy * dy/dt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

(d/dx)(x) = 1 = dx/dx

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Have you seen a mathematician claim that? Because there's entire algebra they created just so it becomes a fraction.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also multiplying by dx in diffeqs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Brah, chain rule & function composition.