For those interested in the origins of the standard error in statistics, "The Most Dangerous Equation" by Howard Wainer is a good, short read: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255612702_The_Most_...
As far as I can remember, Wainer doesn't really assert that the equation is known as "de Moivre's equation", that's just what he calls it in the context of his article.
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