/sci/ - Science & Math

Anyone ever learn something formally, and then realized they pondered the exact same concept when they were little, thinking it was new?

When I was in middle school I once casually thought of an idea I called an "investment-loan" that is both debt and equity (though I didn't know those terms, i just thought of it as (if you aren't up to snuff, you owe something, and if you succeed, you give a piece of the company). years later I discovered that is actually what preferred stock usually is, more or less.

When I was taking Algebra 1 I asked the teacher a question but didn't articulate it very well, and found out later I was thinking of the concept of limits.

theres others but I can't remember them right now. I just think its funny hamfistedly putting the pieces of real things together as a little kid