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		nicota on Feb 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things unexpectedly named after people (2020) The "Sharpe Ratio" was named after William F. Sharpe, who developed it in 1966. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio

dudeinjapan on Feb 22, 2024 [–]

He also invented the Sharpie marker, after other traders kept erasing his fibonacci plots on the whiteboard

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