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The intent of the post, sure. Women and men are equally capable of anything.
But absolutely nobody creating sewing patterns is sitting down and going "alright the integral of e to the x dx is...." Or remembering their laplace transformations.
Do you think "mental calculus" means people are doing derivatives in their heads?
It doesn't. It's also not what was meant by the author of this post when they used the word.
I love over-complicating things... but Calculus in a sewing pattern sounds really strange.
Unless... it is like for a space suit where you need to be accurate? Or making something for a form fitting hard surface?
Fun fact, the space suits used in the Apollo program were made by Playtex
I imagine people are using calculus to analyze knitting patterns and stuff. Not the knitters themselves, but mathematicians who are studying knots or whatever
Quilters would like a word.
Only if you want clothes that fit
Of course they don’t mean women pull out a calculator, a notebook, and start doing calculations, anymore than when a person throws a ball at a target they pull out some graph paper and start calculating parabolic arcs and all that shit. They’re saying we do it instinctively, and if we’re good at doing it instinctively then we can do it intellectually.
I'm not saying I couldn't see cases where I would seriously consider using calculus in a sewing pattern, but it's really not used in sewing pattern creation basically ever unless someone already knows it and has a very specific use case. I suspect the OP meant "calculations" or something similar and mis-typed.
Source: I still remember a fair amount of calculus and I sew