As an aside to the main topic (but not too much of a threadjacking), does anyone know why the American abbreviation of mathematics is math as opposed to the UK maths?
The term “mathematics” is often shortened to “math” in informal American speech and “maths” in British English. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term “math” has been in usage in London and the United States since 1890. The first usage of “maths” first occurred as a colloquialism 21 years later. The term “math” also means a Hindu convent, so since the introduction of the variant “maths” corresponds to the period where Queen Victoria was empress of India, perhaps the trailing “s” was added to avoid confusion in India.
I had a musical epiphany recently: it struck me that if you ignore the aggressive vocals, the backing to the Pink Floyd song is pure disco music. Bizarre combinashun.