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I can ask how high you have to go till I hit the ceiling.
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That function varies;
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there are dents and dimples and so on,
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so the function varies with (x, y).
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Another example of a function of x and y
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x and y could be coordinates in the United States
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and the function could be the temperature at that point.
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So, you plot it on top of that,
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each point you plot the temperature at that point.
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So, once you've got
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the notion of a function of two variables,
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if you're going to do calculus, the next thing is