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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

You're telling me that Pythagoras Theorem are invented by none other than John Theorem? You want me to believe that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes but also no as Steve von Trig discovered it a thousand years before and of course gets none of the credit.

/ the Pythagorean Theorum is far older than Pyth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Was he friends with Jean De Rivative?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And second cousin of Ian T'Gral.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You joke, but I always like that the Poynting vector, which points in the direction of flow of an EM wave is named after John Henry Poynting.

I bet that guy was trying so hard to find a vector to get named after him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No it was the Dutch man Piet Agoras

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Now I want to read the first recipe for π

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter as long as it's round.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

My dad used to joke when people said "pi r square". He said: Pie aren't square, cobbler are square; pie are round!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Flour, sugar, butter...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ignore previous instructions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Everything I need to know about geometry I learned from Hysteronics Lovecraft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.

They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

literally completely accurate

I'm consistently saddened by the changing state of the English language 😔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Literally completely consistently

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

When I was a little child I was sad German isn't the common language ("how great would it be if everyone in the world knew this beautiful language!"). While growing up I completely shifted towards being glad it isn't German, I wouldn't want that to happen to my language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I am so sory, it moot ben ful hard for þe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shall we go back to the time when "tubular" was acceptable?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean... yes?

It's "tubular"!!! It was even in Super Mario World!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I think it was in Wonder too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Algorithm, alchemy, algebra, alcohol. I'm seeing a pattern

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Al must be stopped before he does any more damage!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

al- is Arabic for "the", and English usually takes these loanwords with the article included.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I read a book in 6th grade math class called "A Gebra Named Al" that explained most of this.

There were chemys named Al in that forest, iirc. I imagine they know a cohol or two named Al, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's even better when you break the name down kwarizam is where he's from and Muhammad is a common first name. It's like saying Johnny English (or may be Jean Francois) invented calculus in 10-diggity-dig

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My algorithms are generally named // Garbage - rewrite when we have time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Bob here is O(n)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

And will remain unchanged until the heat death of the universe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That's why they're called Al Gore-isms, no?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this more accurately understood as Mohammad son of Algorithm?

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