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127 - What is Calculus?

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Am I Going Up or Am I Going Down?

If you could measure the amount of up or down a line, then that's what you'ud call the slope of a line. So if we were to draw a line that was tangent to our squiggly line at any one point, then that is what's called the derivative. And so i would say that the slope is going up, right? If i'm going down hill, the slope would be going down. We're in the first quadrant of the cartesian coordinate plane. Do you know what that means? Upper left, upperright, upper right, upper right,. Yes, yes. Gotc. O, all the x values are positive and all the y

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