Timeline for How to pronounce "-1"
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| May 8, 2022 at 17:54 | comment | added | Colin Fine | Ah, the etymological fallacy again. Don't pedants just love that! | |
| May 8, 2022 at 17:52 | comment | added | James K | The reason why pedantic maths teachers (and high school students that they taught) prefer "negative" is "minus" has Latinate roots meaning "with subtraction of" and so shouldn't be used as an attribute (like an adjective) | |
| May 8, 2022 at 17:48 | comment | added | James K | Not "less one". "minus one" (general) "negative one" (slightly pedantic maths teacher). | |
| S May 8, 2022 at 16:46 | review | First answers | |||
| May 8, 2022 at 22:51 | |||||
| S May 8, 2022 at 16:46 | history | answered | Zachary Vance | CC BY-SA 4.0 |