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I thought the convention was to name discoveries for the person who discovered them immediately following Euler.
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Euler only invented half of Math, Cauchy invented the other half of Math.
Things Leonhard Euler created ( most of math ( overlapping circle diagrams ) a cricket bowling machine ) Things John Venn created
An explanation, for those as puzzled as I was:
Unix-based systems traditionally represent timestamps as "seconds since 1970-01-01". If some program requires a modification timestamp for some file and no accurate value is available, it will commonly use the value 0 as a default. When other systems carefully preserve that value, it leads to files with 1970-01-01 timestamp.
Spreadsheets traditionally represent timestamps as "(fractional) days since 1900-01-01". In the same way, asking for a timestamp when no valid information is available will often get the value 0 as a default. Since businesses run on Excel, there's a lot of transaction records with a 0 timestamp in Excel spreadsheets out there.
One last wrinkle: The first wildly popular spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3, had a bug: it assumed that the year 1900 was a leap year, so it assumed 1900-02-29 existed, and so every date timestamp after that point was off by one. When Microsoft created Excel, they carefully reimplemented that bug for compatibility's sake, but if you're a historian looking at the data, you might reasonable assume that spreadsheets stored timestamps as "(fractional) days since 1899-12-31". If you're storing timestamps in some different format, it might not be obvious that those are zero dates - you might assume there's just a lot of transactions processed on that day.
Unix-based systems traditionally represent timestamps as "seconds since 1970-01-01". If some program requires a modification timestamp for some file and no accurate value is available, it will commonly use the value 0 as a default. When other systems carefully preserve that value, it leads to files with 1970-01-01 timestamp.
Spreadsheets traditionally represent timestamps as "(fractional) days since 1900-01-01". In the same way, asking for a timestamp when no valid information is available will often get the value 0 as a default. Since businesses run on Excel, there's a lot of transaction records with a 0 timestamp in Excel spreadsheets out there.
One last wrinkle: The first wildly popular spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3, had a bug: it assumed that the year 1900 was a leap year, so it assumed 1900-02-29 existed, and so every date timestamp after that point was off by one. When Microsoft created Excel, they carefully reimplemented that bug for compatibility's sake, but if you're a historian looking at the data, you might reasonable assume that spreadsheets stored timestamps as "(fractional) days since 1899-12-31". If you're storing timestamps in some different format, it might not be obvious that those are zero dates - you might assume there's just a lot of transactions processed on that day.
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Hahaha. Yep.
Atlanta, GA
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In C, the multiocular O represents the bitwise norxondor gorgonax.
For the non-Americans among us, which states are missing? I think Kentucky is one.
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Can cut a canal from the Chesapeake to the Great Lakes without Pennsylvania there
Bend, Oregon
My wife is a real map-nut, she screamed at this like it was a spider jumping out at her
America City, America
Related - map of the US but Alaska is the focus and the lower 48 are in the small box in the corner:
https://www.williwaw.com/product/ak-usa-map/
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Lawrenceville, Georgia
Linguists, settling some inscrutable grudge, have been steadily sneaking more backdated synonyms for 'sharing borders' into the dictionary. They've added 'contiguous,' 'coterminous,' 'conterminous,' and next year they're adding 'conterguous.'
I'm sad to see that Psi only placed halfway up the list, given that Sai (which are exactly the same shape) are actual legit real-world weapons.
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Oh no, a musician just burst in through the door confidently twirling a treble clef.
"Mathematical Anti-Telharsic Harfatum Septomin"
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Unfortunately, none of them can be sung to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.
Columbia, MD
My favorite such phrase is only 4 words, unfortunately. “Pulse detonation engine tube”.
My other (much harder) hobby is trying to engineer situations where I have an excuse to use more than one of them in short succession.
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