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Simple to say but hard to solve (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's merely a slightly longer sum, so what's the problem?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the feeling you haven't solved many.

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I mean they're right, Leibniz used a modified s for summa, sum. And an integral is just a sum, an infinite sum over infinitesimal summands, but a sum nevertheless.