Single-variable calculus from first principles
In the last two lessons you added up a list of numbers and asked where the running total was heading. Now we make one bold leap: what if the things we're adding are infinitely many, infinitely thin pieces? That single move (sum tiny pieces, then take a limit) is the whole idea of the integral.
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▶ Bridge to Integration