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BB84@mander.xyz to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months ago

the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth

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the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth

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BB84@mander.xyz to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months ago
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545

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    The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.

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      Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

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

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

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      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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      Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.

      They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.

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      and it was a cult?

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    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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    As always, relevant Wikipedia links:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm

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

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

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

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    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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      Pi-Thagoras

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        I heard a first earther recently say it as: pe-tha-gore-ian

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

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      Al must be stopped before he does any more damage!

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        Blind Al helps Deadpool though???

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      allergy? Al Dente?

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        ala carte?

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

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    Isn’t algebra just an Englishized Arabic for “the math?”

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    Wow, this is crazy fascinating

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    Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm

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    I thought we got algorithm from al-gore-ithm

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    Man i remember learning this in CS class

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