(July 4, 2015 at 9:09 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Why doesn't it ever occur to anybody when they come up with something that they are not the first to think of it ?
Yep. In high school, while learning Pythagorean Theorem, I was awake late one night when I figured out that 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2. Visions of Pulitzers danced in my head (ok, maybe not Pulitzers, but I thought I'd discovered something significant) until class the next day when my teacher said I'd found a Pythagorean Triple.
Oh....
I've found it's far more common for youths to think they've stumbled upon something earth shatteringly new, but it can happen to just about anyone, especially when they're learning (or even just thinking) about something that they knew little or nothing about before.
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