I've done my homework, can I play now?
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/lizryi/archimedes_lost_method_the_math_which_could_have
''derailed'' isn't really the Problem of our glorious Deutsche Bahn. They are simply not really reliable - but You can count on that, hahaha!
Only because someone post something on Reddit, I wouldn't see it as a reliable Source. I mean, You can post a lot in the wide Internet World. And find Quotes to ground Ideas, too.
Downloaded KDE Neon Today - and flashed a new boot USB stick with balenaEtcher.
Next I will swap SSD drive and install the OS.
Really looking forward to this
But it corrects my last post.
Getting back on track (car pun intended), why stop at the Desktop Environment? If we all had excessive amounts of CPH4, we could create a whole new OS and call it Singularity (codenamed 'Lucy') - last chance to watch the film on Netflix tomorrow.
If one reads the entirety of it, as the post itself refutes the claims;
These are the kind of dramatic claims which seize the imagination of people hearing about the story of Codex C. An ancient text with secret scientific wisdom, which could have changed the history of the world if it had not been lost for centuries.
The facts
Bressoud says “The implication is that if the world had not lost Archimedes' Method for those centuries, calculus would have been developed long before”. He then crushes this fantasy with the firm statement “That is nonsense. As we shall see, Archimedes' other works were perfectly sufficient to lead the way toward the development of calculus”. [4]
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