According to these discussions, the jury is still out:
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52477.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Slope.html
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher W. Ryan [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:23 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: a little off-topic, but a good trivia question
>
> 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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