Eureka is a Greek word means "I have found it" and also an exclamation used as an interjection to celebrate a discovery.
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Eureka means 'I have found it' in Greek.

Made popular when Archimedes discovered that a body immersed in water displaces it's own volume.
He was taking a bath when this occured to him and he ran down the street shouting "eureka, eureka"

Forgot to put on his clothes first. Oops
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Eureka:

A cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something.

From Greek ‘I have found it’, said to have been uttered by Archimedes when he hit upon a method of determiming the purity of gold.

Hēurēka is the 1st person singular perfect indicative active of the Greek verb heuriskein,6 (Greek εὑρίσκειν) meaning "to find"; it means "I have found it", or more literally, "I am in a state of having found it".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)

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