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A lot of math seems like that: this cool "new" idea was actually completely worked out 200 years ago by this obscure mathematician but it didn't have any impact
by hyperpallium2 5y ago
A lot of math seems like that: this cool "new" idea was actually completely worked out 200 years ago by this obscure mathematician but it didn't have any impact. (I mean, they deserve priority, but...)
- meetups323 5y agoSame for computer science, no? Or anything really... ideas are cheap, seeing the bigger picture and successfully integrating with it is difficult.
- djmips 5y agoSometimes 2000 years ago. I was admiring this quarter scale multiplication algorithm on an eight bit system that used tables of squares and a clever formula to beat my fastest shift and add approach and was blown away to find out that it was known in Babylonian times.