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== Etymology == | == Etymology == | ||
This comma was named by [[Gene Ward Smith]] in 2004 after the American mathematician [[wikipedia: D. H. Lehmer|D. H. Lehmer]]<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_10130.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Re: | This comma was named by [[Gene Ward Smith]] in 2004 after the American mathematician [[wikipedia: D. H. Lehmer|D. H. Lehmer]]. | ||
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Or perhaps 3025/3024 is a better lehmerisma, as Lehmer mentions it on the first page of his paper. […] He was a wonderful gentlemen and a hell of a mathematician, and deserves | |||
a comma as much as anyone. | |||
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—Gene Ward Smith<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_10130.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Re: {{lbrack}}tuning-math{{rbrack}} Digest Number 1011'']</ref> | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||