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[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This happens a lot on mathematics, you figure out something that it's looks incredible just to find out Euler already found it centuries ago.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

That's why they name things after the second person to discover it - Euler was inevitably the first.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Its always nice when it’s someone other than Euler