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kbelder on May 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing N-body gravity simulations code in Python

Cut the time interval shorter and shorter, and then BAM you've independently discovered calculus.

mkoubaa on May 13, 2025 [–]

You need to invent calculus to get partial differential equations. You need invent PDEs to get approximate solutions to PDEs. You need to invent approximate solutions to PDEs to get computational methods. You need to invent computational methods to explore time integration techniques.

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