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Perhaps non-mathematical usage of "equation" in phrases like "entered the equation" and "wasn't part of the equation" has been increasing? I certainly hear it
by discostrings 12y ago
Perhaps non-mathematical usage of "equation" in phrases like "entered the equation" and "wasn't part of the equation" has been increasing?
I certainly hear it in conversation often enough, but I've never taken note of how frequently it's written.
- jasode 12y agoYes, that seems possible. The Google Books Ngram Viewer doesn't have any hits for "enter the equation". However, the word "equation" and "equations" have the opposite trend from NYT.[1] But to emphasize again, the hits are less than .01% which is potentially abusing the word "trend". [1]https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=equation%2Cequations%2C+music&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cequation%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cequations%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cmusic%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=equation%2Cequ...