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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vi%C3%A8te https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vi%C3%A8te ^ I think this was the gentleman who introduc
by stopachka 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vi%C3%A8te https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vi%C3%A8te
^ I think this was the gentleman who introduced the idea of letters as parameters in equations
- gumby 4y agoDiophantos’s notation had variables over 2000 years ago, and letter were used in Indian algebra over a thousand years ago.