Little Reigns

“Some bold adventurers disdain

The limits of their little reign,

         And unknown regions dare descry:” – Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Please, mathematics makes sense. You're just not smart enough to understand it. Please... know your limits. The derivatives are finding the limit to the area underneath a curve, and averaging out the total slope. So, when you download a file, it could create an X/Y graph, through the curve based on bytes and time, and the total file will relate directly to the area. That's how calculus works, and a derivative is a shortcut to build a similar curve, to get an approximation--or it just takes the actual raw data of the curve itself, and gets its area, or the curve. It's an exact science, and makes perfect sense. And it takes geometric series and infinite sums using secants to do this. And this is important, because in things like energy waves on a stove, or even a car driving on a dyno machine, it gets us measurements we can actually use to understand our world.

Please... don't say this kind of thing.

Yeah, you can't lawyer math. I mean, you could, it'd actually make better understanding of how evidence relates to things in a courtroom, but definitely, this is just stupid. We need a little faith, and a little bit of a leap to the conclusion. That's how division works. Without it, we can't have math. Division is the most important operation, because it kind of guesses the right answer, based on the obvious pattern.