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		TylerE on Sept 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mathematicians should stop naming things after eac... In medicine they are often named after the first (documented) patient, not the discoverer.

stan_rogers on Sept 5, 2020 [–]

"Often", here, should be read as "quite rarely".

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