I’m getting filtered by calculus, somebody help me. What the fuck is e and why should I care, why do I want to take some shitty approximation of the area under a curve anyway, why do I even want to calculate a derivative and why are there so many rules for calculating it?

>>16722135 (OP)
hi sharty

>>16722135 (OP)
>What the fuck is e and why should I care
Reasonably important number that shows up in a lot of different kinds of calculations that makes certain kinds of problems easier
>why do I want to take some shitty approximation of the area under a curve anyway
To be able to solver physics problems which are given as derivatives because the property they're observing is the change of one variable with respect to another
>why do I even want to calculate a derivative
To become more fluent in your understanding of the math you're doing
>and why are there so many rules for calculating it?
history

>"I was good at math when it was MATH, not this garbage!"
The eternal cry of the fast-memory, low-perception nigger who learned his times tables early.

>>16722154
I never claimed to be good, I said I’m getting filtered and need help.

>>16722135 (OP)
>why why why REEEE
You can't pretend you're able to calculate areas until you learn to deal with arbitrary boundaries, not just circles and triangles - calculus was in part developed out of a need to address this.

If you want to study time-dependent anything, you need a way to describe rates at arbitrary resolution - this is another of the problems that lead to the development of calculus.