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What does the “n” in mathematical notation stand for?

What’s its etymology?

>> No.11285974

Based troll

>> No.11285996

>>11285972
n is for number, brainlet
\thread

>> No.11286056

The gamer word

>> No.11286130

>>11286056
Tbh if I wanted to up recruitment in math “What does the n stand for?” would be a pretty good slogan.

>> No.11286135 [DELETED] 

>>11285972
nigger

>> No.11286138

>>11285996
Natural number, alshually, from what I can gather.

>> No.11286180

it doesn't fucking matter

>> No.11287224

>>11285972
Damn. Sci really is full of the most intelligent people of all time.

>> No.11287242

>>11285996
It's actually not, which makes you a brainlet too.

>> No.11287248

>>11285972
It is a letter used for some kind of mathematical object. Same as [math]\infty[/math].

>> No.11287250

>>11285972
Nigger

>> No.11287264

>>11285996
>/threading the own thread
>too retarded to get the slash right
/sci/ never fails to be retarded as fuck

>> No.11287265

what is 1 divided by nigger
pls help have to turn this in tomorrow

>> No.11287273

>>11285972
>etymology of a random letter

You absolute faggot

>> No.11287702

It stands for newton, the guy who invented the Riemann sum (integrals)

>> No.11287761

>>11285972
iNteger

>> No.11287776

>>11285972
nice proof, actually

wonder if a more general telescoping relation can be translated to a more general sum that is dominated by it.
I.e. whether there are nice functions f such that
f(1/(n-1)-f(1/n )
can be
rewritten as some other coherend summand of interest.

>> No.11287781

>>11285972
You can't say that

>> No.11287809
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11287809

Can someone start a /pol/ psyop to convince academia that they need to replace all instances of "n" as a generic variable name in math books with a less offensive letter?

>> No.11287921

>>11287809
every variable in math is now q

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11287931

it's an index

The etymology of "n" is from niggers, the hidden figures that secretly did the work in the old days were black mathematicians and African kings whose work was credited to whites. They used the letter "a" for "Africa", where they were kings, mathematicians, and philosophers before being enslaved by the white man. When they were enslaved the white mathematicians would change the letter a in their proofs to n, for nigger, after plagiarizing their work as a form of racial humiliation.

>> No.11287996

>>11287224
Don't be a faggot. Be useful.

>> No.11288399

>>11285972
Stands for nigger.
>>11287921
Stands for queer.

>> No.11289437

>>11285972
nigger