[arjie]

It reminds me of “Tai’s method” of integration - an approximation discovered in 1994.

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...

I think I found it in that other world that is the past on Slashdot - which was a Hacker News from another era https://m.slashdot.org/story/144664

[energyscholar]

I agree that's a good parallel. I had not seen it before. Thanks for the link.

[lazyasciiart]

I don’t think that was supposed to be independent discovery - it was something about needing a published source for the method when saying they’d used it in other papers.

[kjshsh123]

You shouldn't need a source for approximating an area with simpler shapes.

[direwolf20]

One could call it energyscholar's parallel