You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

mutterc comments on The Advantages of Being Technical - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: XiXiDu 19 May 2011 07:39PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (7)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: mutterc 19 May 2011 11:50:32PM 6 points [-]

I remember from my intro micro-econ class in college, there were two versions: Econ H200A (with differential calculus as a pre-req), and Econ H200 (without).

I took the former; they explained the concept of "marginal" with one word: "derivative". The latter apparently had to spend rather more time discussing that concept.