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


From   Richard Palmer <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: a little off-topic, but a good trivia question
Date   Thu, 08 May 2003 15:42:31 -0400

It is the the first letter of "mmm, the slope"  which is the answer you gave
in class to what m represented in y=m*x+b???

Richard Palmer
On 5/8/03 3:22 PM, "Christopher W. Ryan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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