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“Math” is used in USA and Canada. “Maths” is used by the rest of the English speaking world.
by xdex 3y ago
“Math” is used in USA and Canada. “Maths” is used by the rest of the English speaking world.
- MarkMarine 3y agoSounds ridiculous
- _wayl 3y ago"Math" sounds funny as a brit - it's just what you're used to, although I will admit "math" is probably more technically correct.
- vorticalbox 3y agoReminds me of "school of rock" > So, get off your ath, let's do some math.
- jaapbadlands 3y agoYou do
- devindotcom 3y agoNo one has mentioned it but maths is short for mathematics. Also, your judgment of a very common figure of speech comes off as provincial.
- MarkMarine 3y agoFair, I was being trite. The idea that the ocean is a closed system that doesn’t include all the solar energy, currents, mixing and everything else added to it plus an osmotic membrane would represent a perpetual motion machine just sounded so laughably stupid I was just trying to be equally annoying and dumb.
- rhtd 3y agoI disagree to disagree, I henceforth declare this a mathses space for all mathstronauts
- cwillu 3y agoIt derives from the latin: it's math if there's only one subject area being discussed, otherwise it's mathi.
- boxed 3y ago"The rest" being Australia, New Zeeland, UK and Ireland? Still a minority in people right?
- shaky-carrousel 3y agoWell, I guess a billion flies can be wrong.
- bipop5000 3y ago+1.6 billion indians
- boxed 3y agoNot native speakers. So if you count them, you need to count everyone else with English as secondary language. Then things become very messy.
- dpratt 3y agoYet another example of how the American education system is falling behind the rest of the world. Students in the US only learn one kind of math, but apparently the rest of the English speaking world is taught multiple kinds of maths.