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Your ancient culture did not invent calculus, and neither did that one, or that one.
It periodically comes up that calculus was invented a long time ago by other people, and the evidence is generally pretty much the same.
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amolitor.dolt
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@amolitor99
aight. so. i have a phd in math from 1992, and i spent 23 years or so writing code professionally, and now i raise kids and write photography criticism.
Bellingham, WA
Joined July 2010
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