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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 4, 2022

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Moreover, why are so many calculus questions testing algebra skills? I went to an MR uni, and I never had to use anything more complex than a partial fraction decomposition when solving an integral in a higher-level course

partial fraction decomposition is algebra though