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the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth (hexbear.net)
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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You joke, but I always like that the Poynting vector, which points in the direction of flow of an EM wave is named after John Henry Poynting.

I bet that guy was trying so hard to find a vector to get named after him.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Yes and bluetooth was named after the famous king Harold Bluetooth

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

No it was the Dutch man Piet Agoras

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was he friends with Jean De Rivative?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And second cousin of Ian T'Gral.