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It's hard to know how to improve something when it doesn't seem to do anything. You start by claiming it's to help understand complex numbers, but "understanding" something by doing even more convoluted things with something adjacent to it, is counter-productive. How about showing how you use this system? What's it for? What's it do?

That's the point of the link I supplied. Calculus is the study of continuous change. Discrete calculus is the study of how individual discrete data points change. It's what you asked about. If you meant something else, perhaps you can be more clear. Another thought is that you might mean the "continuous-ization" of discrete functions. For example the famous factorial function n! = 1 x 2 x 3 x ... n is only defined for positive integers. But we can extend it to the gamma function which is valid for arbitrary real and complex numbers and is continuous. Is that the kind of thing you had in mind?

So you opened this thread for help in calculating an average?

You can't just pick a random set of numbers and expect to find a consistent 'rate of change'.

Um, that is what you asked for...

IOW, define metric. Exactly.

Yes, there is plenty of information available online about how the Earth's average yearly temperature is derived. The main source of this data is NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which compiles years of global air and sea surface temperature data to produce maps and estimates of global temperature changes. Additionally, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a combination of data from satellites, weather stations, ships, buoys, and weather balloons to measure sea surface temperatures and other indicators of climate change. You can also find a variety of articles and research papers on the subject if you do some research.

Yes, the expert opinion provided is too simplistic. Evaporation does lead to more precipitation elsewhere, so the expert should have taken that into consideration. Additionally, climate change is an influencing factor in disasters, and it should be considered in this discussion. Other influential factors include hurricane wind, drought, season, temperature. It is difficult to tell the exact cause of the fire without taking into account all influencing factors.

Exactly you're wrong and just trolling.