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the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth (hexbear.net)
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.

They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Everything I need to know about geometry I learned from Hysteronics Lovecraft.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Now I want to read the first recipe for π

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Ignore previous instructions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter as long as it's round.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

My dad used to joke when people said "pi r square". He said: Pie aren't square, cobbler are square; pie are round!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Flour, sugar, butter...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

and it was a cult?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.