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- From: kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball)
- Subject: Re: How to write integrals (was Re: The confusion of tongues (was ...))
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:14:30 GMT
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- Emory F. Bunn (ted@physics1) wrote:
- :
- : I think that the reason I usually put the dx at the end is that that's
- : the way it was in my first calculus textbook...
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- One of my first calculus teachers tried to get us to
- drop the dx completely, on the grounds that the integral symbol
- served as an operator on a function,
- and the x in dx was just a dummy index of integration.
- No one listened to him, though... :^)
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- /* tdk -- Opinions are mine, not my employer's. */
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