The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Facepalm@lemmy.world · 2 months agoImagine accidentally reinventing some Babylonian calculuslemmy.worldimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down11
arrow-up1179arrow-down1imageImagine accidentally reinventing some Babylonian calculuslemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Facepalm@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareevujumenuk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·2 months agoSee? Newton and Leibniz weren’t that special after all!!11 In the end, still better than cutting out the area under the curve and weighing it. Isn’t that what nutritionists did before Tai?
minus-squareClay_pidgin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoI wouldn’t have thought of weighing party off a physical model. That’s really clever. Impractical obviously, but clever.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoIt’s just like the water displacement method for finding the volume of an irregularly-shaped object. No biggie.
See? Newton and Leibniz weren’t that special after all!!11
In the end, still better than cutting out the area under the curve and weighing it. Isn’t that what nutritionists did before Tai?
I wouldn’t have thought of weighing party off a physical model. That’s really clever.
Impractical obviously, but clever.
It’s just like the water displacement method for finding the volume of an irregularly-shaped object. No biggie.