The slide on the left represents the simple brute force approach to calculus - just plug in some big numbers and see what happens. The right slide? That's where mathematicians go to die, buried under pages of epsilon-delta proofs that basically say "this number gets really close to that number" in the most painful way possible. Meanwhile, finding the actual limit is the boring middle path that your professor insists is "elegant." Spoiler alert: after four years of advanced math, you'll still sometimes just use the calculator method when nobody's looking.
The Three Paths Of Calculus Despair
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