Who invented homwork?
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I am a grown man,but I remember homework,and I agree that it is not right.The education system is paid to teach our children and kids are required to spend,eight full hours a day of their lives in school.Five days a week,and three quarters of the year.Their time at home should be their FREE time.Tottally unconnected with school and schoolwork.If eight hours a day isn`t enough to teach them,then something is wrong with the system.
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Dr. James Naismith invented it.\n\nGeorge Mikan was the star who helped popularize it
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Euclid of Alexandria, the ancient Greek mathematician and author of the Elements \n\nclick here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements
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he invented the vagina?
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Say hola to Bernhard Riemann. The man who paved the way for relativity also developed the symbol for congruence!
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John Henry Google.  He and Al Gore invented the internet and then he went on to invent search engines and toasters.
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The compound machine was realized with ship building. \nA hoist was needed to lift cargo and the sails. The pulleys provided the means in the short space allowed.
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God... He invented everything
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the one who discovered/ invented it had the last name of fahrenheit.
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That person must be knowing who invented these words
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bill gates, paris and nikki hilton...that dude that invented the omlette dish...
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I don't know who "invented" (first derived) it, but\nit falls out from some reasonably straight forward math.\nSee the explanation at:\n\n    http://www.moneychimp.com/features/rule72_why.htm
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http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa020600h.htm
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I'm not sure...but I think I recall him saying he invented it!
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We invented the concept of pi before the Greeks. Using higher math, we were able to create a perfect circle in three dimensions. Scultping the columns only required a complex circular leveling device using water which we invented in the 8th dynasty.
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There was no such person as Yeshua ben Nazareb.  It is a fictional being, invented by committee 1700 years ago, a retelling of other "saviours" from other religions.  I'll borrow my own words from another posting:\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahd8J7EE5iH6xqL_.MlWehLsy6IX?qid=1006060402294\n----------------------------------------\nThe word "christ" is a corruption of the ancient Greek word "christos", or saviour, and that word is itself a corruption of the Hindu god Krishna.\n\nThere have been more than a dozen "saviours" predating christian mythology, most of them borrowing from each other. You'll also notice that their years of origin go east (oldest) to west (newest), following the "Silk Road" from China between 600 BCE (2600 years ago) until 200 CE.\n\nKrishna\nBuddha\nOsiris \nMithras\nDionysus\nHeracles\n\nAmong many others. Most were born shortly after the winter solstice (Dec. 22), most were born to virgins screwed by a "god", and most "suffered" before they "died" and "went to heaven". \n\nIt's the same stupid fairy tale, regurgitated and retold with local bits added on as it went place to place.\n----------------------------------------\n\nHere's question you won't have an answer for: If you jeebus was such a troublemaker in the land of Palestine, why do the Roman's written records of their occupation make no mention of such a person nor do the dozens of writers from that time, whose words we still have today (eg. Pliny the Elder), not make any mention of such a person?\n\nNobody talked about "jeebus" because "jeebus" wasn't there.  No such person ever existed.
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It depends on what you mean by modern. If you mean "not ancient," then three big names are:\n\nJohn Napier who discovered laws for solving spherical triangles.\n\nIsaac Newton who defined the trigonometric functions in terms of infinite series.\n\nLeonhard Euler who defined trigonometric functions in terms of complex numbers.