• joby@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    The discipline is “mathematics.” It’s really not unreasonable that in some parts of the world, it got shortened to maths.

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      10 months ago

      And the other error present is the incorrect pluralisation. Mathematica means the entire area or domain of knowledge, while mathematics sounds like several lines of thinking, which is weird when we use it as a singular. Maths doesn’t refer to several kinds of math, and that’s confusing.