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[crocodilewings]

v = u + at
s = ut + ½at2
v2 = u2 + 2as
s = ½(u + v)t

What do you collectively call these?

Edit: This isn't a quiz or anything. I'm curious as to what people were taught to refer to these by. We had a perverse teacher at A-Level who taught us that the factorial function was called 'pling'. This sort of activity breeds distrust.

Comments

[rhodri]

I consider these to be the unexpected and unwanted resurfacing of a repressed abuse memory.

[wyrdness]

Equations. Though I'm not known for my maths genius so I wouldn't know if they happened to be some sort of superior type of equation with a completely unique name. :)

[karohemd]

That's what I have said because my understanding of maths pretty much ends there.

[puddingcat]

Newton's Laws of Motion, in GCSE format.

A ! is Pling wherever it is, whether in prose or equations.

[crocodilewings]

'Bang' is another common verbal shorthand for referencing the exclamation mark as a piece of syntax. We were taught to refer to the actual function as 'pling' by one Mr. Andrew Preston, a Yorkshireman of dubious educational motive.

For some reason, 'bang' strikes me as a much better term than 'pling', but I have absolutely no objective basis for my preference.

[puddingcat]

"Bang" is consistent with the Interrobang, but sounds to me more like a full stop. Even though it isn't.

[crocodilewings]

The full stop already has a pretty ubiquitous 'dot' going for it.

I'm now combing my keyboard trying to find a more cumbersome piece of typography than 'exclamation mark'. The only one that draws with it is 'open curly brace'.

[purpleheather]

No idea dear - my brain just sort of fails to read them. This meanwhile: 'Slip st in next sc, ch 1, [(sc, ch 3, sc, ch 5, sc, ch 3, sc) all in ch-3 loop, ch 2] 6 times;' fine!

[kizzie]

Motion or something. Something from A Level! I'm sure it was to do with cyclical motion and cones, but there's no pi in there!