23 Dec
2021
23 Dec
'21
5:28 p.m.
On 12/23/21 4:00 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 03:29:18PM +0000, Dr Iain
Maoileoin wrote:
That's just a language thing,
lots of people in the US call arithmetic
math. I'm 100% positive that that is not just me.
Interesting - have you always done that? Or is it a more recent use of
the word?
50 years ago our (Scottish) schooling used only Arithmetic for the basic
number manipulation. About 10-15 years ago maffs became the name. I
dont know how the transition occured with us. Schools? or Media??
Perhaps we have just imported the name from the good old US of A ;-)
Probably
boomer doing math wrong.
I might get flamed for this comment, but is a number
divided by a number not
arithmetic.?? I cant see any maths in there.