23 Dec
2021
23 Dec
'21
10:35 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 04:28:26PM +0000, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote:
On 12/23/21 4:00 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
It's always been that way, arithmetic is a mouthful so people use math
to mean arithmetic. You are correct, arithmetic is a distinct subset
of math. But it's pedantic to call that out, math is a superset of
arithmetic so it is perfectly reasonable to call doing some arithmetic
"math". If we started nit picking about those types of differences,
we'd never get anything meaningful done.
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? 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.