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Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by mkl on Saturday July 06, 2019 @10:45PM (#20373292)
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.

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