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exochronotoday at 5:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Wikipedia also notes that “Ramanjuan’s constant” was actually discovered by Charles Hermite in 1859 and it was a 1975 April Fools article in Scientific American that attributed it to Ramanujan.


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olooneytoday at 6:43 PM

Stigler's Law of Eponymy strikes again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy