Timeline for Allowing nonstandard mathematical language and/or notation
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 14:48 | comment | added | md2perpe | @NoName. Then it's very similar to Swedish. A direct translation of "times it by x" is "gångra det med x" which unfortunately is commonly used. | |
| Apr 20, 2023 at 19:35 | comment | added | No Name | @md2perpe it is far more common to hear "times" used this way, as in "times it by x" to mean "multiply it by x". Even serious mathematicians use it! Full disclosure, it drives me nuts | |
| Jun 13, 2020 at 15:30 | vote | accept | Nick C | ||
| Feb 11, 2020 at 15:07 | comment | added | md2perpe | @quarague. I did not mean that it is correct Swedish. It's bad Swedish. If one does not remember the latinbased word "addera" (English: "add"), then one could use the pure Swedish phrase "lägga till" (directly translated "put to", meaning "add" or "append"). | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 12:22 | comment | added | quarague | It seems to me that "We take x and plus it with 5" is perfectly correct math, it just isn't grammatically correct English. From @md2perpe comment it seems to be correct Swedish and I would guess that it is also correct in a few other languages. | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 22:27 | comment | added | md2perpe | I think you're right. Also, Swedish and English are similar enough for the same things to happen. | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 21:57 | comment | added | Milo Brandt | @md2perpe Yes, it seems like a fairly common mistake in English - I think it probably comes from the fact that $x+2$ is read as "x plus two" where it's not totally clear which part of speech "plus" is (it's technically a conjunction synonymous with "and"), but where it feels like we're describing the action of "add two to x." Maybe it's similar in Swedish? | |
| Feb 9, 2020 at 21:44 | comment | added | md2perpe | Is it common also in English to use 'plus' as a verb? In Swedish many pupils say "jag plussar" and "jag gångrar" (from the word "gånger" meaning "times") for "I add" and "I multiply". | |
| Feb 8, 2020 at 5:27 | history | edited | Milo Brandt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a few notes
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 22:53 | history | answered | Milo Brandt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |