• vrek
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    2 months ago

    I’m normally a fan of xkcd but I don’t get this one.

    Why would calculus teachers drill holes in the base of the tanks?

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      2 months ago

      A common problem in many introductory calculus courses is to calculate the amount of water that drains from a container, because it introduces accumulation of change over time.

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      2 months ago

      Because many calculus problems deal with rate of change as derivatives/integrals are important to solving them. A common word problem in calculus courses deals with tanks of fluid draining from a hole at the bottom as it deals with several factors that change over time.

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        2 months ago

        Ah ok that makes sense, more of a compsci guy then a pure math guy