Re: More glossary items
From: Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) (wmwd2zz02_at_sneakemail.com)
Date: 03/12/04
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:11:38 +1300
Cameron Laird wrote:
> There are other calculi--"quaternion calculus" and "vector
> calculus" are two not-too-uncommonly-heard ones.
Indeed, in mathematics the word "calculus" really just
means a method of calculating something. It's actually
the Latin word for "stone", presumably dating back to
the time when people used stones as counters when
doing arithmetic.
-- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
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