Slope of a line...
By hilloketty
@hilloketty (28)
Philippines
November 23, 2007 9:24am CST
Why is the slope of the line represented as "m"? please help me... This is our assignment.
2 responses
@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
23 Nov 07
I also never knew why slope of lines are always represented by "m", but I highly suspect they must be the initial of a Latin or Greek word that renders the representation. Try to search about this online via search engines and see what the results are. By the way, it seems a pretty short but difficult assignment you have there.....
@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
23 Nov 07
I'll try and look it up for you when I have some spare time. When is the due date of your assignment?
@bee0tch44 (2)
• Philippines
25 Nov 07
according to this link,
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.terms.html
no one really knows where they got the "m". it might mean "monter" a French term which means to climb. or maybe it can stand for "modulus of slope".
@hilloketty (28)
• Philippines
25 Nov 07
Yah. I visited that site too. I wonder what's the true origin of that "m".. hayyy.
