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		gumby on April 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Artists Notice As a programmer who married a painter this resonated with me. Except for the part about variables being invented in the 15th century which I don’t think is right.

stopachka on April 17, 2022 [–]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vi%C3%A8te

^ I think this was the gentleman who introduced the idea of letters as parameters in equations

gumby on April 17, 2022 | [–]

Diophantos’s notation had variables over 2000 years ago, and letter were used in Indian algebra over a thousand years ago.

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