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Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by discostrings on Saturday July 26, 2014 @01:34PM (#8090233)
Perhaps non-mathematical usage of "equation" in phrases like "entered the equation" and "wasn't part of the equation" has been increasing?

I certainly hear it in conversation often enough, but I've never taken note of how frequently it's written.

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Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by jasode on Saturday July 26, 2014 @01:46PM (#8090251)
Yes, that seems possible.

The Google Books Ngram Viewer doesn't have any hits for "enter the equation". However, the word "equation" and "equations" have the opposite trend from NYT.[1] But to emphasize again, the hits are less than .01% which is potentially abusing the word "trend".

[1]https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=equation%2Cequ...

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