Math professionals/students/people: Does the name "Add (N) to X" anger/frustrate you?

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What do they mean? Add (n) to x: why is the n in brackets? Is it an index? Does it mean adding a costant to a variable as in translation, like some stupid pun on dancing or something? Should I hate them because they are posers or are they refering to something specific?

― ddd, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

it neither angers nor frustrates me.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

At least Nothing Painted Blue got a song title consistent with math notation... ie "Can't F(x)"... ("can't function")

that said, "Add (N) to X" doesn't frustrate me at all. Add (N, X) or Add(N)+X wouldn't roll off the tongue as well.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that the X is actually the letter that appears in brackets: Add N to (X). I don't know if that makes a difference.

― SamHunt, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i've always liked imagining that the cypress hill song "a to the k" is about math.

― dave k, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

It doesn't annoy me. It doesn't appear to make sense, but it all depends on what you define the terms involved to mean.

What does annoy me, ever so slightly, is Math *--dig at my American cousins.

― meirion john lewis (mei), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I couldn't care less.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

i've always liked imagining that the cypress hill song "a to the k" is about math.

sometime last year i drew an expression for "a to the motherfuckin k" on my blackboard. only one of my officemates got the joke.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I have taught calculus, nothing this tame can annoy me

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

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