Calculus A

A soft version of calculus designed for the use of people with learning disabilities. Given the letter "A" as it is the most essential and basic level of calculus SON.

Calculus A student: whats a derivative?
Calculus 1 student: whats an anti-integral?

by Dietrich Burbulla January 10, 2011

calculus warrior wannabe

a calculus warrior with a casio calculator instead of a ti-83 or higher.

"God, your calculator sucks! Oh it's a casio! You calculus warrior wannabe!"

by The Scottish Muffinman November 25, 2009

Calculus

Calculus is a cruel and hard mistress. No one wants to do her because no one CAN do her. Except Chuck Norris. He can do her. Calculus is easy for him.

"Dude, did you do your calculus homework last night?"
"... We didn't have homework?"
"Chuck tester."

by DrakeS26 January 5, 2012

Calculus

A branch of mathematics that is only useful for people trying to enter into certain fields of work, for the rest, it's completely useless. Sadly, universities in the United States require people in fields that have nothing to do with math to take this class in order to graduate, thus lowering there gpa, and making them seem less qualified as a result of a poor mark in a class that has nothing to do with their future career.

Dick: Ahhhh, so stressed!!!
Jane: whats wrong?
Dick: Ah nothing, just gotta a lot of calculus homework
Jane: Why are you taking calculus, aren't you trying to become a physical therapist?
Dick: Ya I am, but I have to take calculus in order to graduate.
Jane: Wow, that makes no sense

by tikwah April 6, 2011

Lil Calculus

One of the greatest up and coming rappers in recent years. His cult following and synthwave beats make for incredible songs and lyricism. From the west coast, the underground rapper has only ever shown his face in recent years, and his true identity is now well hidden, and only known by some.

After a string of numerous controversies, he's unfortunately suffered numerous account resets, and song deletions, but he still continues making music, and updating the official Lil Calculus Minecraft Mod for 1.14.4

"Hey man, what are you listening to?"

"Lil Calculus, of course"

"Man he's fire"

by JackMilton.exe April 1, 2021

Out-of-Bounds Calculus

Unexpected or surprising examples, interesting problems, and clever proofs on calculus that are often counterintuitive or paradoxical—the oddities that most math students are seldom exposed to during their calculus lessons.

Be it a continuous function whose graph possesses a tangent at no point, or a continuous function that has infinitely many maxima and minima on a finite interval, or a shape that has finite area but infinite perimeter, these examples of out-of-bounds calculus seldom fail to trigger an aha! reaction among math geeks.

by Covido August 24, 2022

calculus

Calculus is a branch of mathematics, developed independently by Newton and Leibniz and formalized in the 19th century by various mathematicians, that revolutionized human understanding of the world. Mathematically, it allows us to talk about instantaneous rates of change and areas under arbitrary curves. Doesn't sound important? When does anyone use this? Differential equations, which express the relation between two quantities in terms of how they change with respect to one another, allow us to model situations in which we cannot explicitly find the relationship between quantities. This concept can be applied to model situations in physics, engineering, chemistry (how does this reaction progress?), physiology (how does a muscle contract?)...just about any science, as well as economics, sociology (how do new ideas spread?), and more. If you want to understand the world today, you need to understand calculus. Statistics too...but that's another story.

Calculus is not some super-hard subject that only the most brilliant can handle. If you have a good teacher who explains things precisely, you can learn calculus. (Finding such a teacher, unfortunately, can be the hard part.)

Guy 1: I have to go to calculus class now.
Guy 2: Calculus? That sucks.
Guy 1: No it doesn't. I'm finally learning math that I can apply -- you can't be an engineer without it!

by Daniel M May 13, 2006