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You must be good at Math (programming.dev)
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[–] expr@programming.dev 5 points 10 hours ago

Many things that work with time series data use calculus all the time. Both derivatives and integrals are very useful in that context: derivatives being the rate of change at some particular time step, and integrals being the sum of the changes across a range of time steps.

There's a pretty wide range of applications.