What’s the most intricate mechanism whose functioning you understand well enough to explain? Any kind... machine, math, finance, biology, stars, dishwashers, epidemiology, law... and how many “moving parts” in the explanation?
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It depends heavily on how many times I'm allowed to use the phrase "then some crap happens that I don't know much about, and then"
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Let's go with (single-variable) calculus. How many moving parts are there to calculus?
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Email. All the way from tapping a button down to transistors, including the magic that makes glass able to detect your finger.
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It's a toss-up between pricing of options/derivatives and other structured financial products, and blockchain technologies.
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