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    What inventor, credited with developing Calculus, was so bad with names he sometimes forgot his own brothers?

    Question #84336. Asked by death9. (Aug 09 07 5:26 AM)


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    Newton and Leibniz both discovered calculus independently, though Newton discovered it first.

    http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/cig/pdf/0028643658.pdf

    Aug 09 07, 7:39 AM

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