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Why is it that the people who created C (Dennis Ritchie) and C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup) are not as famous as they should be? Akin Ocal, Contract C++ Programmer 68 votes They are highly respected computer scientists and they are famous among programmers. And I don`t think "movies" is the best analogy. Many people prefer particularly "Nolan"... Read More » How good a mathematician should one be to understand the proof (Andrew Wiles') of Fermat's last theorem? Peter Flom, Independent statistical consultant fo... 23 votes A grade school education is enough to understand the theorem. But you'd need a PhD (and a suitable specialization) to fully understand Wiles proof of the theorem. That's ... Read More » Given that , , and , how much is ? Brice Huang, High school math enthusiast 114 votes Observe that the given information implies . Therefore the two matrices on the left are inverses, and . It follows that .... Read More » How can I find the square root of 22 without a calculator? Mark Eichenlaub, graduate student in physics 1.6k votes Newton's Method Make a guess,  Calculate the average of  and  Using the result as your new guess, go back to step 2. Repeat as long as you want....  Read More » I want to attack Great Britain. How can I defeat the British army? Ernest W. Adams, Game Design Consultant, Author, and T... 332 votes To even get near the British Army you have to get across the English Channel. Good luck with that. The last guy to do it with any success was William the Bastard in 1066 AD... Read More » How do you know if a function is Riemann integrable, and how do you rigorously prove so? David Joyce, always learning 33 votes Below are five ways you can tell if a bounded function  on an interval is Riemann integrable. You can find an antiderivative of it. If  on the interval, then by the F...  Read More » Why are our genitals positioned between our legs? Joshua Engel 1.5k votes Genitals are between the legs of every vertebrate. In those that don't have legs, it's between where the legs would be (the fins of fish) or where they were (the legs of re... Read More » Why didn't the Native Americans ever advance technologically over thousands of years, while Europe and Asia advanced dramatically? Geoffrey Widdison, Engineer, reader, thinker, dreamer. S... 106 votes First: to get this out of the way, a number of cultures in the Americas had technological and social advances in a number of different areas. People advanced and innovated ... Read More » How does paper money get its value? Phil Darnowsky, I know things and have opinions 101 votes Same as any other money: from a social convention. That is to say, from an agreement, very widely spread but usually never made explicit, that a given drab green piece of p... Read More » How can one become pretentious about red wine? Kay Tom, Wine Pro/raw vegan athlete 1.5k votes 1). When presented with the wine list, reject it and ask for the Captains list. 2). Browse through the Captains list with disgust and ask to see the regular wine list aga... Read More »