Our car's number plate has XYZ at the end, so we called it René. René de Car.
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I love it! Very nerd witty.
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He was also the first to use a standard notation for the superscripts to denote powers x²
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I swear to god I never knew that convention. I guess it makes sense in retrospect.
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And I popularized the use of jhuwekjhsdflhohehahuliudfs for showing students that the names of our variables in programming don't *really* matter.
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Until someone else has to work on your code.
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Fast facts: René Descartes worked on free fall, catenary, conic section, and fluid statics. Analytic geometry was independently invented by René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat, although Descartes is sometimes given sole credit [Cartesian geometry]
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I heard a story about him preferring to sit in an oven to work.
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Descartes also made the connection between geometry and algebra. One of the greatest feat of mathematics of all time.
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And most famous for putting himself before DeHorse.
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*groan*
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