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Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World

Ben Orlin

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Grant Sanderson recommends it affiliate
I feel like Ben Orlin solved what was previously an unsolved problem with this book: Teach calculus in a way that is as enjoyable to those unfamiliar with the topic as it is to experts who use it every day. I, for one, was laughing from page 1.

on 3blue1brown.com · 1 Jun 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.