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One thing I hate about finance is how every little trick is named by borrowing the name from an existing concept in mathematics which only barely relates to the
by joejohnson 14y ago
One thing I hate about finance is how every little trick is named by borrowing the name from an existing concept in mathematics which only barely relates to the financial trickery.
- ojbyrne 14y agoThat Wikipedia page says the practice originated before 1400, so it could be that mathematics stole the word from finance.
- gaius 14y agoA factor, from the Latin "he who does" (from Latin facit, to do, parallel to agent, from Latin agens), is a person who professionally acts as the representative of another individual -- also from Wikipaedia. Looks like it was (English-speaking) mathematicians that borrowed the term.