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Please, can more people answer this question , with just one answer? Gerald Elgar's answer is too snippy. Steven Schwartzman would answer yes. See The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English , page 1. I started asking my trivial and seemingly irrelevan...

No, it's not a "concern" in the sense of "worries". It's a concern in the sense of "commercial enterprise, entity". PS: From the sense of busyness came the business meaning of “concern” I suppose. 1. How are these 2 senses of concern related? What semantic notions unde...

I picked $9 million CAD, in view of Japan†. I picked Canada, as I want to retire there. LottoMax's jackpot is $80 million, 6/49's $68 million. Giant jackpots worsen wealth inequality, and are unjust. Better to LOWER lofty jackpots, but RAISE the probability of winning jackpot. LottoMax ought offer ...

My students still reckon Lande’s 2 motivations for ‘unless’ = ‘if not’ (below) too abstract, formalistic! Thus I need a 3rd simpler, motivation with merely etymology . But I never studied linguistics! How do I 1. use these etymology quotations, to motivate ‘unless’ = ‘if not’? 2. teach why “less th...

My students still reckon Lande’s 2 motivations for ‘unless’ = ‘if not’ (below) too abstract, formalistic! Thus I need a 3rd simpler, motivation with merely etymology . But I never studied linguistics! How do I 1. use these etymology quotations, to motivate ‘unless’ = ‘if not’? 2. teach why “less th...