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[-] Zorque@kbin.social 22 points 11 months ago

Algebra existed long before Isaac Newton.

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

Pythagoras died a ‘thirdgin’ because of this. /s

I.e. you don’t even need algebra to use letters.

[-] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The funny part is that his theorem had already been discovered by an ancient civilization. I want to say the sumarians, but honestly that's the only one I'm familiar with, so I could be wrong.

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