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Old 03-15-2009, 12:50 AM   #27
xoxoxoBruce
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Originally Posted by SteveDallas View Post
I a certain sense that's true. Would any of those discoveries have been made without Euclidean geometry? Trigonometry? Calculus? Again, it's hard for people who can whip out pocket calculators (or better yet phones with pocket calculators) to judge the historical impact of, say, logarithms.
What's more important, logarithms or what people have done with them?
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