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		yuppiemephisto on Dec 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Derivative at a Discontinuity That's what "up to an infinitesimal error anyway" meant.

thaumasiotes on Dec 12, 2024 [–]

Yes, but that's also the entire thing I was questioning. The essay says that an integral necessarily contains a hypernatural number of infinitesimal slices. I don't think that's true.

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