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In Our Time: Science
The Magic of E to the X
calculus is the maths of rates of change. E first appears in this context, but it wasn't quite seen as that initially. The magic thing about E to the X is if I look at what that function is doing at any point, its value is the same as its rate of change at that point. Very important for cannonballs and planets and everything else.
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