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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Brah, chain rule & function composition.

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• Koolio@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also multiplying by dx in diffeqs

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    vietnam flashbacks meme

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• Collatz_problem@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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