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> This ∞-shaped curve is called a 'leminscate', and ϖ is called the 'lemniscate constant'. I'll show you the leminiscate in my next post. Two of these...do not
by metaphor 2y ago
> This ∞-shaped curve is called a 'leminscate', and ϖ is called the 'lemniscate constant'. I'll show you the leminiscate in my next post.
Two of these...do not belong?
- brookst 2y agoEven the word has evil twins
- saghm 2y agoIt's so evil that it defies spelling
- thaumasiotes 2y agoLemniscate. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BD%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BD%CE%A...
- adrian_b 2y ago"Lemniscate" is the correct spelling. All the other variants are mistyped.
- yard2010 2y agoIt's quite funny imo that someday english people were like "forget about latin or german, greek is lit! Let's use greek"
- laurent_du 2y agoWhat makes you think it was the English? I am pretty sure it comes from continental Europe.
- cgio 2y agoLatin is lemniscus, so someday Latin people were like “let’s use Greek”
- dmurray 2y agoLatin writers have been like "let's use Greek" at least since Virgil, so modern writers can be excused for getting their roots mixed up.
- rsynnott 2y agoA healthy mixture was always preferred in maths and science. This is occasionally taken to extremes; the name reverse transcriptase, an enzyme used by retroviruses, is a combo of English, Latin and Greek! Arabic is also popular, particularly in maths.
- xanderlewis 2y agoIs it? I can only think of (the very frequently noted) ‘algebra’ and ‘algorithm’.
- nicwilson 2y agoazimuth is the only other one I can think of off the top of my head
- dredmorbius 2y agoYou'll find "zenith" at your feet.
- samatman 2y agoYou're thinking of nadir, also Arabic. The zenith is in the opposite direction.
- dredmorbius 2y agoGah! So much for my wit.
- rsynnott 2y agoAlso ‘zero’, and ‘cipher’ (which, oddly, derive from the same word). And ‘average’. There are a few of them.
- dizhn 2y agoNot math but I just learned alkali is the word for "ash" in Arabic.
- ajmurmann 2y agoDon't most European languages use Landis loan words from both Latin and Greek? Both used to be taught in classical education.
- msravi 2y agoWhy stop at greek or arabic when you can go all the way to sanskrit? The words for sine and cosine derive from the sanskrit jiva (meaning bowstring, i.e., the chord of a circle)[1]. Sine and cosine were respectively jya and koti-jya, which got transcribed into arabic without the vowel (where it meant nothing). They then pronounced the vowel in the wrong place, calling it jeb (which meant pocket or fold in arabic)[2]. Then this wrong word got translated into latin as sinus (fold), and hence we have sine and cosine! 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jy%C4%81,_koti-jy%C4%81_and_utkrama-jy%C4%81 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jy%C4%81,_koti-jy%C4%81_and_... 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_and_cosine#Etymology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_and_cosine#Etymology
- thaumasiotes 2y agoThe wikipedia link has this occurring in the 12th century. But Hellenistic astronomers were already working with sine tables. What did they call the concept?
- dotancohen 2y agoI understand the confusion. Lemons smell good. The second root, on the other hand, far less pleasant.
- bregma 2y agoShakespeare often spelt the same word differently at different times. If it was good enough for Billy Shakespeare, it should be good enough for modern-day mathematicians, forsooth.
- stogot 2y agoThis might feed the “Shakespeare was not one person” theory
- zdragnar 2y agoThe first of Shakespeare plays predate the first published English documentary. It was uncommon for spellings to be inconsistent or change between writings to be easier for a particular audience (in this case, actors) to be able to read.
- drivers99 2y agoI guess you mean: first published English dictionary and It wasn't uncommon / It was common
- zdragnar 2y agoYes, I was rather tired and typing on my phone required more correcting of the autocorrect feature than I could manage.
- mckn1ght 2y agoI’m still making my way through it, but reading a history of shakespearean/elizabethan england, the first written publications of shakespeare’s plays that were accessible to the general public weren’t written by the man himself (if indeed he was singular). There were entire efforts put towards pirating the plays by writing them, mostly from memory. It’s believed that someone in the crowd creating a stenographic copy would’ve been noticed so this is a less likely explanation. The memorial effort likely involved both audience and actors. “Official” versions meant to direct the stage productions might have been smuggled out or lost and found. I haven’t gotten to the part yet that connects to the standard versions we have today. Some official versions were released to correct the record on bad pirated versions. Sometimes theaters would sell official versions to shore up funds. Maybe this would explain the multiple shakespeare theory as well as writing inconsistencies?
- Netcob 2y agoNot to be confused with the "lemonscape", a hallucinated world you enter when you've eaten too many lemons.