Geeks Rule! LonelyVet: Geek? You mean smart, sexy, well-informed, able to discourse on just about anything? Yeah, that's geek to me! D*mn straight!  LonelyVet: Gypsy! I am so tired I got confused between Italian and Spanish! Thanks for understanding! Hee hee hee! (I 'lol' too much.) gypsy: nnaaahhhhh tu eres la mejor,lol... what was the topic..geeks...we're losin it  i had a friend here ...wannabee geek...i miss him..he left LonelyVet: Sorry about that! I learned Spanish from someone who learned English from watching TV...geez! And I am sorry that your friend left, that stinks! (Hope you meet another sexy geek soon, lol!)  HOPE83: hey guys ...im new here, but i thought i would contribute and say i think some geeks are SO HOT!!! intelligent people are so hot..... anyway hi ...hope to make some friends on here  lil_emofish: Im geeking it to the max XD i play DnD I play minecraft I out logic people with geek ray I sit at a computer 80% of the day I was extreamly good at maths and science as a kid I am Epic Geek  slurik: ok geeks, here is a question for you that myself and my calculus professor have been bouncing around. Who was the mathematician who decided to call a geometric progression geometric? We have deduced that from available information there are several reasons which may give way to a reason WHY it was named a geometric progression, however we are more curious if this title was given due to the nature of work a specific mathematician was doing while using these progressions in their proofs. As it stands, it is clear that they could be called geometric progressions since any nth term of the series where n>1 is obtained by the geometric mean of the succeeding and preceding terms. This can be better by the following: Consider a rectangle of side lengths A & B, then the square root of A*B represents a square of equal area. This gives us an insight as to where the geometric concept comes from. To reinforce this consider an arithmetic mean, (A+B)/2, in this case the 2 side lengths would represent a square of equal perimeter as the rectangle, which is a 1 dimensional problem, thus non-geometric (albeit it CAN in fact be represented geometrically, this is not the direction of the question.) We know that Euclid did some work with geometric progressions, but we are unable to deduce if it in fact was he whom coined the term "Geometric progression". Should this be euclid, what work provoked such a name to be coined? Was another mathematician involved from earlier times? Did euclid even call them geometric progressions? Geeks, share the knowledge if you have it. |
