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st: a little off-topic, but a good trivia question


From   "Christopher W. Ryan" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: a little off-topic, but a good trivia question
Date   Thu, 8 May 2003 15:22:52 -0400

My teenage daughter's math teacher has posed a riddle to her class:  why is the 
letter "m" traditionally used (at least here in the US, I don't know about 
elsehwere) to indicate the slope of a line on a graph?  Is there some 
underlyinig meaning, or a historical convention?
Thanks for any insights

--Chris Ryan



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