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[–] [email protected] 131 points 4 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] 24 points 4 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] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Was he friends with Jean De Rivative?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

And second cousin of Ian T'Gral.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

No it was the Dutch man Piet Agoras

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Now I want to read the first recipe for π

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Ignore previous instructions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Flour, sugar, butter...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 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!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 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.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 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

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Bob here is O(n)

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (7 children)

literally completely accurate

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Literally completely consistently

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean... yes?

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean that your sadness levels are consistent among all times you're exposed to bad examples of this linguistic change?

Should it not be "constantly saddened", meaning that sadness is caused often upon you when seeing such examples?

If this is the case, I can relate to that. Or should I say... it do be like that sometimes

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

I might be wrong, but since "saddened" would express a change towards more sadness, "consistently saddened" would mean I get sad (or more sad?) every time I see that kind of thing. However, my intention is to say more that the saddening is consistent - every time I see something happens, consistently. I'm not permanently sad, but the way the language is changing is usually making me sad.

I feel like "constantly" might not be appropriate here, but again, I might just not know English well enough myself. To me, constantly would mean unchangingly, meaning I never stop being saddened. In this context, I feel like that means my mood is continuously descending - but instead those are isolated instances of temporary saddening of varying intensity.

Of course, it's just a lighthearted comment on a meme, but I'd be happy to learn if my understanding is wrong! And, honestly, I don't mind this kind of slang and internet speak, but it annoys me to see "literally" lose its meaning and gain the actual opposite meaning, that kind of thing.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 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] 31 points 4 months ago (4 children)

So he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (22 children)

The Persians, Muslims, Arabs kept knowledge and science that would have been lost during the dark ages.

If it wasn't for their continued work in maths and sciences centuries would.have been lost / wasted.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Built off it, rather than copied it. That's par for the course in most science.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.

Just ask ~~Tesla~~ Edison!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Edison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

john backflip is that you???

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Al must be stopped before he does any more damage!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 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] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait till you learn about Al-Gebra (no, really that’s not made up either). Also the famous Catherine Calculus and Sir Georgometry.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't algebra just an Englishized Arabic for "the math?"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From this dude's wiki page:

His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), [...] The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise (الجبر Al-Jabr, transl. "completion" or "rejoining").

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Wow, this is crazy fascinating

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm

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