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Funny to see just how prolific Gauss was since so many things are named after him and continue to be newly named after him, such as this example of Gaussian splatting, which, while he obviously didn't directly invent it, contributed to the mathematics of it significantly.


"Monte Carlo" is in a similar space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_(disambiguation)

8 entries in "Science and Technology" alone.




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