| 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 * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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