More glossary items
Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)
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Thu Mar 11 22:11:38 EST 2004
Cameron Laird wrote:
> There are other calculi--"quaternion calculus" and "vector
> calculus" are two not-too-uncommonly-heard ones.
Indeed, in mathematics the word "calculus" really just
means a method of calculating something. It's actually
the Latin word for "stone", presumably dating back to
the time when people used stones as counters when
doing arithmetic.
--
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
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