Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic...
by mkl on Saturday July 06, 2019 @10:45PM
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It wasn't thought of, it was calculated using a computer algebra system. Such systems are very powerful, but tend to be fairly bad at writing things nicely and simplifying, so they often produce insanely big and complicated formulas.
amazing what people think of