I want to understand in the simplest terms why it is crucial for conputer science and if there is such a thing as a simple calculus exercise to be explained?
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Computer science is, in many ways, the study of efficiency. It’s laziness. How can I do something and have it cost me the least amount of time and effort? To know that, we study algorithms, data structures, network traffic, etc.
Calculus allows us to understand how quickly things change. Acceleration is a great example. It’s the rate of change in velocity. We cannot know the precise rate of change without calculus. Calculus gives us the methods we need in order to determine lows and highs, volume, intersections. This is necessary in order to understand efficiency.
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