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Anonymous Sun May 12 02:19:46 2013 No.5753036 [Reply] [Original]

Why is t used in integrals when x is used in differentiation?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 12 02:22:16 2013 No.5753039 >>5753036 x is used in both t is used in both it's completely arbitrary, it's just a variable name

>>	Anonymous Sun May 12 02:24:45 2013 No.5753044 >>5753039 why would they do this? what is the reasoning for the convention

>>	Anonymous Sun May 12 02:32:01 2013 No.5753052 >>5753044 sometimes (a lot of times), we have functions of time, hence using t makes sense.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 12 02:56:02 2013 No.5753107 File: 11 KB, 824x240, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If you mean like this, then t is just a dummy variable

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