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by GlenTheMachine 2335 days ago
My PhD advisor was a stickler for citing original sources. Really, really original sources. He made me cite some papers written by Lagrange in the 17th century in French, when neither he nor I nor nearly anyone else who would ever read my dissertation could speak French.

I got to the point where I needed to cite an original source for the quaternion equations, so I cited the bridge.

He got the message.