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calculus
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calculus as used in reasoning or mathematics

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  • "I'm very good at calculus," he explained, pushing up his glasses.  (source)
    calculus = the branch of mathematics that is concerned with continuously changing values
  • "You can't teach yourself calculus," he said.†  (source)
  • Pointing in the direction of the escapee, he said, "He dared to claim that he invented calculus!"†  (source)
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  • When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.†  (source)
  • He read books on calculus and logarithmic algebra and loved what he called the poetry and symmetry of math.†  (source)
  • My junior year, I tested into the honors Advanced Math class—a hybrid of trigonometry, advanced algebra, and pre-calculus.†  (source)
  • A day for doodling and dreaming and wishing you were anywhere but Ms. Paulson's calculus class.†  (source)
  • Maybe he was going to smash me in the nose with a calculus book.†  (source)
  • I mean, I had been tired since waking, but combining fatigue with calculus seemed unfair.†  (source)
  • I spent the summer after my first year in law school working with a juvenile justice project in Philadelphia and taking advanced calculus courses at night to prepare for my next year at the Kennedy School.†  (source)
  • While he labored over what seemed endless amounts of schoolwork (Chem and Calculus, American History, English, Astronomy, Japanese) I sat on the floor with my back against the side of his dresser, counting silently to myself: this time only three days ago she was alive, this time four days, a week.†  (source)
  • She propped herself up on one elbow on her bed and stared at her brand-new, just-covered-with-a-brown-bag calculus book.†  (source)
  • I wish I could rewind back to the very beginning of the summer, when everything was so clear and simple and easy; or rewind even further, to the late fall, when Hana and I did our loops around the Governor and studied for calculus exams on the floor of her room and the days clicked forward toward my procedure like dominoes falling in a line.†  (source)
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