ext_17567 ([identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2010-10-22 05:35 pm (UTC)

"Calculus" just means "a bunch of rules for calculating"; that the unqualified word came to mean "differential and integral calculus" is, I think, another accident of educational curricula.
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