The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Facepalm@lemmy.world · 6 days agoImagine accidentally reinventing some Babylonian calculuslemmy.worldimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down11
arrow-up1178arrow-down1imageImagine accidentally reinventing some Babylonian calculuslemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Facepalm@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareevujumenuk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·6 days 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-up8·6 days agoI wouldn’t have thought of weighing party off a physical model. That’s really clever. Impractical obviously, but clever.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 days 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.