They happen to be at the center of a minor controversy and semantic games of what exactly is Calculus because they were doing these series approximations routinely about a couple of centuries before the European recognition of the Taylor series or calculus for that matter.
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They happen to be at the center of a minor controversy and semantic games of what exactly is Calculus because they were doing these series approximations routinely about a couple of centuries before the European recognition of the Taylor series or calculus for that matter.