From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 30614 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2021 16:47:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Dec 2021 16:47:54 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E70729CEAE; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:47:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43EA79CE21; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:47:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6FE599CE21; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:47:24 +1000 (AEST) Received: from newtrichead.scotnet.co.uk (newtrichead.scotnet.co.uk [217.16.223.153]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993A09CC00 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:47:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [192.168.252.222] (cerberus.scotnetdev.net [80.80.180.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by newtrichead.scotnet.co.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 1BNGkPxO009951; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:46:25 GMT From: Dr Iain Maoileoin To: Larry McVoy References: <818A6F70-D117-471A-9E08-E37B34F8FAE0@mac.com> <20211223021805.GK24180@mcvoy.com> <20211223141958.GR24180@mcvoy.com> <20211223160011.GS24180@mcvoy.com> <3915e4db-6740-9777-03f4-4c6b4c09045c@csp-partnership.co.uk> <20211223163532.GW24180@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <0531de6e-6c93-bdde-9ee4-cd4ab1f54e0b@csp-partnership.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:47:19 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20211223163532.GW24180@mcvoy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs - now off topic X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 12/23/21 4:35 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 04:28:26PM +0000, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote: >> On 12/23/21 4:00 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 03:29:18PM +0000, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote: >>>>> Probably boomer doing math wrong. >>>> I might get flamed for this comment, but is a number divided by a number not >>>> arithmetic.?? I cant see any maths in there. >>> That's just a language thing, lots of people in the US call arithmetic >>> math. I'm 100% positive that that is not just me. >> Interesting - have you always done that??? Or is it a more recent use of the >> word? > It's always been that way, arithmetic is a mouthful so people use math > to mean arithmetic. You are correct, arithmetic is a distinct subset > of math. But it's pedantic to call that out, math is a superset of > arithmetic so it is perfectly reasonable to call doing some arithmetic > "math". If we started nit picking about those types of differences, > we'd never get anything meaningful done. I totally agree.  My question is about language use (or drift) - nothing else.  In Scotland - amongst the young -  "Arithmetic" is now referred to as "Maths".   I am aware of the transition but cant understand what caused it to happen!  I dont know if other countries had/have the same slide from a specific to a general - hence the questions - nothing deeper. In lower secondary school we would go to both Arithmetic AND also to Maths classes.  I suspect that no longer happens in the schools.  I guess I will need to go speak to some teachers. I am not nit-picking, this is just the first time I have picked up the use of maths in the context amongst eh how do I phrase it "the older generation" oops....