Question 50307
Remember that much of our graphing, in particular the Cartesian Coordinate System is attributed to the French mathematician Rene Descartes--in fact, Cartesian comes from the word "DeCARTES", right?  Well, the m that we use for slope comes from the French word "montez" which means to go up, as in mount up, or mountain.


I asked that question for 25 years before I finally found someone who could tell me!!


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