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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Why is slope denoted by m?
- Date: 8 Oct 1992 08:06:39 -0400
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- In article <1992Oct7.181405.18957@unlinfo.unl.edu> kwright@hoss.unl.edu (Kevin Wright) writes:
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- >What is the origin of m for denoting the slope of a line?
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- Right on schedule! Someone asks this question here every autumn...
- Presumably because it is a question in a certain text...
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- It is related to the French `monter', to ascend; `mont\'ee', ascent;
- `montant', ascending.
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