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