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P.S. On a tangential note, it would help if the names for mathematical terms were in English, rather than some weird amalgamation of Greek, Latin, French and Ge
by anon4 11y ago
P.S. On a tangential note, it would help if the names for mathematical terms were in English, rather than some weird amalgamation of Greek, Latin, French and German. In my language, all n-gons are called n-anguloids. So you have threeanguloid, fouranguloid, fiveanguloid, "a proper N-anguloid", etc... And we use the normal names for numbers, rather than Greek ones. And a rectangle is "right-angle-oid" (granted, that's the name in English too, if you squint a bit and know what phonetic shifts to look for and your German is good). Square is quadrat, though. Then again, it's still an everyday word, even if we borrowed it from Greek millennia ago. And the word for "perimeter" also means "a walk around" and "a lap". You literally tell people "the length of the lap of a rightanguloid is the sum of the four sides", which is kind of obvious if you imagine walking the perimeter. And the word for "angle" is the same as "corner". Sadly, that ship has sailed long ago.
- anvandare 11y agoI am 99% sure you're talking about Dutch, and in that case: we owe a lot of those non-borrowed terms, including the very term 'wiskunde' (mathematics) to Simon Stevin[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stevin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stevin