742: fracture, fraction, and fractal Dec 19, 2016
hat does fracking have to do with fractals?––Generally very little in
terms of their mechanics, but as you may now be guessing, they are
etymologically related. 'Frack' is just an abbreviation started in the
1950's of 'fracture', but in addition to 'fractal', 'fraction is
related. All of these words come from the Latin participle of 'frangere'
which means, 'to break', 'fractura', but while 'frack' took the meaning
of breaking into pieces, the two aforesaid mathematical terms use a
meaning closer to reduction.
Comments
Post a Comment