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From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/31
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In article <5mmq08$qqd@corn.cso.niu.edu> system  writes:

>clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) writes:
>
>>Evidently not true.  Calculus was invented in the 17th century by Newton.
>>Another poster has stated that the OED dates "technology" to 1614, so it
>>appears that the word "technology" predates calculus.
>
>the 17th century is the 1600s.
>
>However Newton was born in 1642.

Then as long a Newton invented calculus before his 59th birthday, it was
indeed invented in the 17th century.

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