3 ms·

Or currying

• Jtsummers 6y ago
  Dijkstra's algorithm, Turing machines, von Neumann architecture, Hoare triples, Hamming distance, Levenshtein distance, Fisher-Yates (or Knute) shuffle, ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_algorithms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_algorithms - many of the items in this list are named after people.
  • beagle3 6y ago
    Krebs' cycle, HeLa cells and Lugol's formula in medicine as well; And also an Allen key, a Phillips screwdriver, many of the physical units (Ampere, Volt, Tesla, Weber, Newton, ...). It happens in all fields. For that matter, the Hebrew word for masturbation is named after Onan, who was described in the bible as having done so.
    • robocat 6y ago
      Onanism and related words exist in English and other languages too: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/onanism https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/onanism
    • dhosek 6y ago
      In fact, Onan is not described as masturbating in the Bible, but rather pulling out when he was supposed to impregnate his brother's widow. There is no explicit mention of masturbation in the Bible.
  • User23 6y ago
    Kolmogorov complexity