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Actually, limits and infinitesimals are two very different explanations/foundations for calculus. Infinitesimals are much more intuitive.

Up to last decade, limits were the only rigorous enough explanation. Until someone invented an equally rigorous reconstruction of calculus with infinitesimals.




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