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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 70 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You're telling me that Pythagoras Theorem are invented by none other than John Theorem? You want me to believe that?

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 17 points 4 months ago

Yes but also no as Steve von Trig discovered it a thousand years before and of course gets none of the credit.

/ the Pythagorean Theorum is far older than Pyth.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 8 points 4 months ago

Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago

No it was the Dutch man Piet Agoras

[–] BB84@mander.xyz 43 points 4 months ago
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only correct answer to “name every Algorithm”.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My algorithms are generally named // Garbage - rewrite when we have time

[–] DarkenLM@kbin.earth 5 points 4 months ago

And will remain unchanged until the heat death of the universe.

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 36 points 4 months ago

It's even better when you break the name down kwarizam is where he's from and Muhammad is a common first name. It's like saying Johnny English (or may be Jean Francois) invented calculus in 10-diggity-dig

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

literally completely accurate

I'm consistently saddened by the changing state of the English language 😔

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

When I was a little child I was sad German isn't the common language ("how great would it be if everyone in the world knew this beautiful language!"). While growing up I completely shifted towards being glad it isn't German, I wouldn't want that to happen to my language.

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago

I always thought that the guy who invented the Internet created the first one. That's why they're called Al Gore-isms, no?

[–] roosterduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 months ago

john backflip is that you???

[–] Moriarty@startrek.website 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.

[–] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 14 points 3 months ago

Built off it, rather than copied it. That's par for the course in most science.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago

The Persians, Muslims, Arabs kept knowledge and science that would have been lost during the dark ages.

If it wasn't for their continued work in maths and sciences centuries would.have been lost / wasted.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.

Just ask ~~Tesla~~ Edison!

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Man i remember learning this in CS class

[–] Zatore@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought we got algorithm from al-gore-ithm

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

My algorithms could be considered gore

[–] BellaDonna@mujico.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this more accurately understood as Mohammad son of Algorithm?

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[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

I thought the boss that came after Knuth was John Conway, due to Knuth's up-arrows vs Conway's chained arrows.