The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Facepalm@lemmy.world · 1 month 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 · 1 month agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareevujumenuk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·1 month 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-up8·1 month agoI wouldn’t have thought of weighing party off a physical model. That’s really clever. Impractical obviously, but clever.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month 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.