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Post #1132452

2026-03-20 17:37 UTC

TIL, that the "eu" in "Eureka!" is not the "eu" in eulogy/Europe/eucalyptus/eukaryote, ... but is actually the "heu" in "heuristic" (the "h" got dropped at some point). In Eureka and heuristic it comes from "to find/discover".

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