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Re:Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012) by ronald_raygun on Saturday October 29, 2016 @01:00PM (#12824895)
I would try to do math and finance earlier. I think calculus is usually underrated when people consider "most important inventions", and the idea of investing for fractional ownership in an enterprise turned out to be non-obvious but really really useful.
Re:Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012) by wycx on Sunday October 30, 2016 @12:34AM (#12828182)
Also cartesian coordinates. No one drew graphs until Descartes.