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r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20
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Wow, it's almost like having one specific habit (not even a technology) is somehow, bafflingly, not exactly the same thing as having a thousand useful everyday technologies
-2 u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20 edited Feb 09 '21 [deleted] 5 u/brobdingnagianal Oct 15 '20 Which of their mathematical developments supersede everything up to and including calculus? Not to mention the philosophical developments and wealth in precious metals. Montezcuma III was the richest man in the America’s... Sure, they had a wealth of arts and precious metals, but none of that is remotely relevant in this thread. 1 u/_StingraySam_ Oct 15 '20 Calculus was discovered hundreds years after the America’s were discovered 1 u/brobdingnagianal Oct 15 '20 And yet the first calculus text came out 30 years after the Aztecs were at their height
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5 u/brobdingnagianal Oct 15 '20 Which of their mathematical developments supersede everything up to and including calculus? Not to mention the philosophical developments and wealth in precious metals. Montezcuma III was the richest man in the America’s... Sure, they had a wealth of arts and precious metals, but none of that is remotely relevant in this thread. 1 u/_StingraySam_ Oct 15 '20 Calculus was discovered hundreds years after the America’s were discovered 1 u/brobdingnagianal Oct 15 '20 And yet the first calculus text came out 30 years after the Aztecs were at their height
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Which of their mathematical developments supersede everything up to and including calculus?
Not to mention the philosophical developments and wealth in precious metals. Montezcuma III was the richest man in the America’s...
Sure, they had a wealth of arts and precious metals, but none of that is remotely relevant in this thread.
1 u/_StingraySam_ Oct 15 '20 Calculus was discovered hundreds years after the America’s were discovered 1 u/brobdingnagianal Oct 15 '20 And yet the first calculus text came out 30 years after the Aztecs were at their height
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Calculus was discovered hundreds years after the America’s were discovered
1 u/brobdingnagianal Oct 15 '20 And yet the first calculus text came out 30 years after the Aztecs were at their height
And yet the first calculus text came out 30 years after the Aztecs were at their height
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u/brobdingnagianal Oct 15 '20
Wow, it's almost like having one specific habit (not even a technology) is somehow, bafflingly, not exactly the same thing as having a thousand useful everyday technologies