Re:Decomposing a function into its even and odd parts
by pash on Sunday July 31, 2016 @04:02PM
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Yep, I looked it up too, and indeed par and impar seem to have been the standard Latin terms for even and odd in the mathematics of the era. See, e.g., Clavius's 1574 translation of Euclid's Elements [0].
0. https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ks7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA...