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It reminds me of “Tai’s method” of integration - an approximation discovered in 1994. https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscovery-of-calculus
by arjie 9mo ago
It reminds me of “Tai’s method” of integration - an approximation discovered in 1994.
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscovery-of-calculus-in-1994-what-should-have-happened-to-that-paper https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...
I think I found it in that other world that is the past on Slashdot - which was a Hacker News from another era https://m.slashdot.org/story/144664 https://m.slashdot.org/story/144664
- energyscholar 9mo agoI agree that's a good parallel. I had not seen it before. Thanks for the link.
- lazyasciiart 9mo agoI don’t think that was supposed to be independent discovery - it was something about needing a published source for the method when saying they’d used it in other papers.
- kjshsh123 9mo agoYou shouldn't need a source for approximating an area with simpler shapes.
- direwolf20 9mo agoOne could call it energyscholar's parallel
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