how did we go from this...

To what?

The air of suspense is suffocating.

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to THIS

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this is where it all went downhill

>>8423541
>>8423538
"It's difficult because it's letters instead of numbers"

>>8423951
What do square brackets and the vertical lines mean?

>>8423960
Also, the curly braces. What do those do?

>>8423983
And that stuff with infinity. What do I even do with that?

Where are these variables all defined? Do I have to infer from context, or has it been agreed on for a various context, or?

>>8423951
what is a limit though? it's neither a letter or a number. derivatives and integrals are just hocus pocus tricks made by people who couldn't handle raw algebra and needed to use semantics to get the slope of tangents and areas under a curve.

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to theeeeeeeeeeeeeese

>>8424237
absolutely based

>>8423538
I'm actually starting here and working my way up slowly. I am refreshing my entire mathematical understanding.

>>8424237

>mochizuki tier gibberish

autist detected, lol

>>8424237
>posting alchemy on a math board

>>8423983
A curly brace is just like that big E where you add shit lmao

>>8424230
It is a number or a letter.

>>8424237
>2016 is the year
>not making your own beamer template

>>8424791
>not making your own triple integrated Barnett space


Bububububububraiiinleeeet

>>8423538
>math is dumb cause im retarded

please kill self

>>8425376
Anything past arithmetic isn't math it's just semantics.