As a followup question to yesterday's question, in 1980 another law was proposed, stating that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Such an example would be the Pythagorean theorem, which was known to mathematicians of other cultures before Pythagoras, or Hubble's law, which was actually derived by Lemaitre 2 years before Hubble. The law from yesterday would be a prime example as well, since the doubling was known to many in the field.

So, what is the law, which states that no discovery is named after its original discoverer?

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Answer to yesterday's question: Moore's law, named after Gordon Earle Moore, founder and CEO of Intel Corporation. The law was first published in the 35th anniversary issue of magazine "Electronics" in 1965 and actually stated a growth of roughly "a factor of two per year". In 1975, Moore revised the prediction from doubling annually to doubling every two years.

There is also a second Moore's law following an opposing trend - stating that cost for producers to fulfill the first Moore's law, doubles in every 4 years.