army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes March 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 March 2013 11:04:53PM 2 points [-]

Actually, I think it'd take more than 140 characters to write out Maxell's equations in 1850 notation. Vector notation was developed by Heaviside towards the end of that century, when Maxell's equations were already known.