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hawaiidude
Oct5-03, 07:44 PM
out of curiousity, when do "most" people do calculus? when do they start?

mathman
Oct5-03, 10:39 PM
"Most" people start as college freshman. Brighter students take advanced placement calculus in high school (senior year).

Dimitri Terryn
Oct5-03, 11:24 PM
It really depends where you are.
In Belgium, precalculus is taught in the fourth year of secondary school. The last two years are devoted to calculus.

Things I saw in High School:
Series
Limits
Derivatives
Partial Derivatives
Integration
Simple differential equations

I'm quite sure that in most other European countries this is also required knowledge for most students.