OTM (Math) Naah, I'm sure the Babylonians had done it long
before that, and the Chinese long time before even that..
That is, I remember some analysis of babylonian clay
tablets and long tables of division, up to
division of billions, supposedly to divide both profit
and loss of cooperative business, sold, lost sheep and caravans.
(but the need for dividing billions is still a mystery??
cannot have been sheep nor women nor figuring out why a
1.4Ghz P4 does nothing for seconds, maybe the grain
futures business on the commodity market??)
But the vikings had regular summer jobs in Constantinopel,
so they probably learned a thing or two. (called
"pyjama-land", "sarkland" (a with dots))
"Wineland" (USA) seem to have been proven by finding
seeds of more southern nuts in Newfoundland viking
escavations, the southern regions where grapes could
have been grown at that (warmer) time??
(the other possibilty is the first documented
marketing hype??)
The worlds oldest "bank with paper-bills" was earlier
Swedish (1600??) until it was proven that the chinese
did the same some thousand of years earlier??
(both ended in bankruptcy during the first recession??)
And as the neanderthals have been proven to having
produced logarithmic fourier transformations (flutes)
and probably stomped their feet synchronously,
if needed silencing both wifes and kids, I firmly believe
that it is impossible to have a general patent
on power control as well as receiving the same tune
from two or more flutes..
Ilmarinen.
P.S. I thought National Geographic lost their market
to Playboy (those wobbling round things) which lost its
market to the alt.binary groups of Internet??
(The two first rumored to be printed on finnish
glossy paper, GPRS soon rolling over the third??)
P.P.S. On the other neanderthal hand, "Finland" might
have it roots in "women-land" (Kvinnoland) where the
women silenced the men, other possibilty "friendly-land",
maybe also a result of women?? (in finnish it is
obviously "Suomi" and none of those swedish what-evers
(not possible to translate politely) :-) |
