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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 130 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 23 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Was he friends with Jean De Rivative?

[-] quinkin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And second cousin of Ian T'Gral.

[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago

Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth

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[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago

The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Now I want to read the first recipe for π

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Ignore previous instructions.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Flour, sugar, butter...

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.

They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

and it was a cult?

[-] Geobloke@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year 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

[-] BB84@mander.xyz 66 points 1 year ago
[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 year ago

literally completely accurate

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

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Literally completely consistently

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Shampiss@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] yetiftw@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

your loss then; I like it!

[-] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 points 11 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.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It is becoming unruly. Or rather the users are.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 45 points 1 year ago

The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DarkenLM@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Bob here is O(n)

[-] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year 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?

[-] Moriarty@startrek.website 31 points 1 year ago

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

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.

Just ask ~~Tesla~~ Edison!

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True but then again that's the point: he stole some fame as a scientist. Or at least as an "inventor".

~~Great businessmen always steal, they don't have the ethics to do actual work~~

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] roosterduck 27 points 1 year ago

john backflip is that you???

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Al must be stopped before he does any more damage!

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[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Wow, this is crazy fascinating

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm

[-] Zatore@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I thought we got algorithm from al-gore-ithm

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

My algorithms could be considered gore

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Man i remember learning this in CS class

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