whence sprung a bad pun
The BBC has compiled a(n understandably Anglocentric but adequately interesting) rundown of 100 things we (debatably) didn't know this time last year.
Possible favorite: "19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing 'is equal to' in his equations. He chose the two lines because 'noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle.'"
Was that dude ill33terate or what?
Possible favorite: "19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing 'is equal to' in his equations. He chose the two lines because 'noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle.'"
Was that dude ill33terate or what?