The second part of calculus is simply about finding the area under a curve. Pre-calculus mathematics accomplished this by breaking an unknown area into parts whose area they could calculate. for example, a surface like a bell curve can be approximated by drawing small rectangles along it. the smaller the rectangles, the more accurate the approximation will be. Newton and Liebniz both discovered that you can use calculus to solve these approximations for an infinite degree of accuracy. Using integral calculus, it is possible to continue making the rectangles so small, they can calculate the area under a curve to total accuracy.
An integral is a set of rectangles from one given point, to a second given point on a graph, underneath a known curve (an equation of a line). I will finish editing this later.
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Greek. Useless Greek.
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