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[–] evujumenuk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See? Newton and Leibniz weren't that special after all!!11

In the end, still better than cutting out the area under the curve and weighing it. Isn't that what nutritionists did before Tai?

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have thought of weighing party off a physical model. That's really clever.

Impractical obviously, but clever.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's just like the water displacement method for finding the volume of an irregularly-shaped object. No biggie.