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tired: arguing about pi versus tau versus who gives a flying fuck, I've got your factors of two right here
wired: honest talk about whether we should keep the names of things named after people who were pretty seriously into being Nazis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_algebrahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascual_Jordan#Political_activities
@bstacey I personally don't think any concept should be named after a person, especially when a large majority of those persons are white men
@walruslifestyle @bstacey not to mention how we generally *don't* name things after people who aren't white men.
it's why we have the "Chinese Remainder Theorem" instead of Sunzi's theorem.