@socks no, definitely not. Legendre was French, so the name would be pronounced something like /ləʒαːndʁ/, I believe? Definitely not "legendaire", which would be something like /lεdʒεndeiɹ/, not even close -F
@socks also in looking up the pronunciation to be sure we discovered an interesting fact: the only known portrait of Legendre is a caricature, and the portrait used in countless books for over 200 years to represent him was discovered in 2005 to actually be a portrait of an unrelated obscure 18th-century french politician who also happened to have the surname Legendre -F
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@socks also in looking up the pronunciation to be sure we discovered an interesting fact: the only known portrait of Legendre is a caricature, and the portrait used in countless books for over 200 years to represent him was discovered in 2005 to actually be a portrait of an unrelated obscure 18th-century french politician who also happened to have the surname Legendre
-F