stackyFACTSThe foundation of modern graphing geometry was literally born out of lazy, staring-at-the-ceiling boredom. Descartes, who famously refused to get out of bed before noon, supposedly invented the Cartesian coordinate system just by intensely watching a fly crawl across the ceiling tiles and plotting its exact position.
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