Timeline for Is there a reason why integrals are so much easier to evaluate than sums?
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| Feb 18, 2011 at 0:50 | comment | added | Robby Slaughter | @Gerry fair enough; but whether the world is actually more continuous or merely seems more continuous, we certainly have more experience with continuous phenomena. | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 0:48 | history | edited | Robby Slaughter | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 18, 2011 at 0:34 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | You may be putting the cart before the horse - it may be that we make believe the world is continuous because we have better tools for dealing with the continuous than with the discrete. | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 0:33 | comment | added | Did | @Robby: The world is mostly continuous... Is that so? | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 0:26 | history | answered | Robby Slaughter | CC BY-SA 2.5 |