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Is Calculus a Way of Discovering?

Is calculus a way of discovering, or is it a way of explaining a discovery? It's definitely both. I mean, sometimes so an example of the explanation aspect would be a isaac newton used calculus to explain why thep nets move the way they do. So that's a case where calculus was explaining. But it's also a tool for discovering. You know, i in the case of maxwell and electromagnetic waves, or when einstein predicted the phenomenon of stimulated emission of atoms which ultimately gave us lazers.

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