[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/sci/ - Science & Math

Search:


View post   

>> No.15275019 [View]
File: 318 KB, 1299x719, Screenshot from 2023-03-14 15-27-43.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15275019

>>15274977
>>15274438 pic related (bottom corner)
https://www.academia.edu/49692206/A_quick_course_on_How_we_got_Numbers

Magnitude, a notion of length, size, magnitude, etc of something

>Borrowed from Late Latin Latin commensurabilis (“having a common measure”) in 1550s, from Latin com- (“with”) + mensurabilis (“measurable”). Equivalent to com- + mensurable.

Inncomensurate magnitudes
one or more notions of size, length, magnitude of something that lack a common measure

Navigation
View posts[+24][+48][+96]