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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago

Astrology was so important to the Greeks, they figured out the elliptical orbits of the planets (up to Jupiter) and how to compute them without calculus.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Right, I'm not denying that. People have always been smart. The problem that calculus solved was the intensely difficult algebra that it replaced

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

ironically, algebraists are currently trying to replace calculus with more algebra. needless to say, the algebra involved is pretty extreme

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