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  • 11-08-2017
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The integral symbol looks like an elongated S, as in sum. Why do you suppose this?

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merlynthewhizz
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  • 16-08-2017
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the Mathematician who first introduced the symbol for integral, [tex] \int[/tex], thought that the symbol is to represent integral as an infinite sum. This symbol was adapted from the letter 's'.
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