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by chrispine 1513 days ago
True, and there are lots of these (Bayes's theorem, Bresenham's line drawing algorithm, Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm all spring to mind). But I kind of assume that it's because it's useful to have a name for De Morgan's Laws and these others (so it stuck as a good meme in the original meaning of "meme"), rather than because we're all so impressed with this amazing result.