Timeline for Mean of “guy” in math?
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| Sep 11, 2019 at 3:02 | answer | added | Laurel♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 23:59 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | @userr2684291 - True, but it depends on the context. (Fishermen often use she to refer to their boats, or to the seas.) | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 21:39 | comment | added | user3395 | I don't think it's specifically defined anywhere because it's just a personification, and the usual definition applies (whether what's being personified is male or not is not really important here, although maybe it'd be a little odd to say she to reference one such guy). | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 21:26 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | This is correct. And I agree with @urnonav. When I was in grad school in the US in the late 80s, "guy" could refer to a mathematical object of many different kinds, not just a number, an element of many kinds of a set. A particularly vivid memory to me personally involves the first question in my candidacy exam (aka quals), when I referred to an element of a group as "what about this guy?" (pointing at a dot on the chalkboard) at a critical point. | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 20:49 | comment | added | mRotten | Can you transcribe the sentence, and give a link to the video? | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 20:41 | comment | added | Bavyan Yaldo | You are right. i haven’t seen it in a written form. However, i hear this very often from native English speakers in math in university. I hear this from KHAN Academy in Youtube videos of math explanations as well. @urnonav | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 20:37 | comment | added | urnonav | Could you provide an example sentence? English speakers will refer to almost anything - tangible or intangible - as "guy", including algebraic expressions. This is widely done but is not very formal. | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 20:33 | history | asked | Bavyan Yaldo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |