What a revolutionary mathematician. Rotating the plus sign by 45 degrees? None of his contemporaries would have ever been able to do that.
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Although, I’ve got to say, the true genius is in the symbol that replaced the X. What mathematician came up with the dot? Only a god could have come up with something so revolutionary. I mean, just a dot? An absolutely fantastic invention.
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How was before?
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They just Used linguistic terminology instead of symbols. Full word or shortened
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So HE is the reason I never learned my maths properly.
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Who introduced the centered dot?
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It was substituted by asterisk in computer languages
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And thus future generations would spend countless hours in cramped, sweaty Algebra classes seeking answers to math problems when the true answer was Christ.
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Two questions: 1. How mathematicians noted multiplication before? 2. Who come up later with the centered dot? Thanks
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