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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was a fraction in Leibniz’s original notation.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

And it denotes an operation that gives you that fraction in operational algebra...

Instead of making it clear that d is an operator, not a value, and thus the entire thing becomes an operator, physicists keep claiming that there's no fraction involved. I guess they like confusing people.