• Gladaed@feddit.org
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    Wrong. Good look fooling around without algebra for years. New methods make old maths easy.

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      …and even newer methods make old math insanely complicated, but much more generalized. Like building definitions for things like numbers and basic arithmetic using set theory.

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        No sarcasm. Being able to use numbers, integrals and derivatives makes a huge amount of maths easy. Exponential function and it’s relatives are so handy. (Sin, Cos, Tan, Cot, log).

        The Greeks didn’t have any of that to do their math.