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Originally Posted by Schumi

And knowing how to apply differential calculus to things in life can never be considered to NOT be useful. It sickens me that, at my (public) high school some years ago... 95% of my graduating class never took Calculus. Because they didn't have to. While I was in Calculus 1 class in high school (with 6 other people), 95% of everyone else was taking Home economics or Gym or something else... enough to just get by...

I'm a math geek, I took Calc in HS (AP tested out of Calc 1 in college, but had to take it again anyway). I've taken Calc 1, 2 & 3 and DE (twice, once 20 years ago and again 2 years ago). As much as I find math/calc really interesting, especially the practical application, I don't know that 99% of the population needs or would benefit from it.