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A comment on Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003). Parent comment

Re:Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003) by User23 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @03:30PM (#20435420)
I thought it was just yet another historical and linguistic oddity in English.
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Re:Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003) by mruts on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:07PM (#20435655)
Calculus means "stone" in Latin. I suspect the relationship between stones and counting is why we use it so much (though I'm not an expert on how/why Romans used stones).
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