Matt2 comments on Beautiful Math - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Matt2 18 January 2008 01:55:26AM 0 points [-]

The differences method is of course strongly related to differential calculus. The first difference corresponds to the first derivative, etc. And just like in differences, the nth derivative of a x^n term is sure enough a constant.