• @[email protected]
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    634 months ago

    I remember the day I realized that Africa and South America fit together when looking at a paper atlas. It felt like I had just discovered something incredible. I guess I had, but I wasn’t the first. :-)

    • @[email protected]
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      724 months ago

      This happens a lot on mathematics, you figure out something that it’s looks incredible just to find out Euler already found it centuries ago.

      • Xavienth
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        124 months ago

        That’s why they name things after the second person to discover it - Euler was inevitably the first.