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Comment author: [deleted] 22 July 2015 10:45:32PM 2 points [-]

Not really. Everyone agrees that calculus can be done with infinitesimals, but most mathematicians think that doing it with limits forms a better basis for going on to real analysis and epsilon-delta proofs later.