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== Better Than News ==
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== Are You Sure ==
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Revision as of 09:25, 1 August 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and astronomer Pietro Cataldi contributed to the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation; and that Cataldi discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588?

• ... that the essay Man's Inhumanity to Man by writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes profoundly influenced three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers?

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