Talk:Differential

added the dy, dx, dt edits
Would like feedback as to whether this is an appropriate edit. I believe that this (inifinitesimal link) should be listed, otherwise you have to "find it twice", you have to correctly guess to click on the differential calculus link (which 75% of people looking for would probably do) and then correctly guess (less than 50% I'm speculating) that the differential calculus page you just navigated to is also a directory and that the (infinitesimal link) is something you must click to and finally you find the right info.

My proposal is to either put the (infinitesimal link) as a choice available on this page, and let them see the dy, dx, dt stuff they are trying to learn about, and since maybe they know nothing about it, they'll correctly be sent to the page which is of benefit to them. I apologize ahead of time, if a math phd thinks is a bad idea but I'm a calculus noob and I think that a differential refers to dx, dy, etc... and would like to be given a choice on this page that sends me to it, without having to decipher the advanced descriptions. Sentriclecub (talk) 07:56, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Second go round, 3 months later


 * Okay 2nd definition of comprise makes the sentence a lot more clear. If anyone ever wants to revamp the consistency of the noob user's quest to find information about differentials, come put a note in my forum.  I am noticing that physics books and hypermodern calculus books have different treatment of the subject and I came to wikipedia to figure out and resolve the discrepancies between my two books (stewart calculus and halliday physics). Sentriclecub (talk) 11:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Should this page have an entry for 'Differential pulley'?
(as in the subject) --2600:E000:13:3178:9E4E:36FF:FEBB:9470 (talk) 21:57, 22 May 2019 (UTC)