Re: reason for "s = distance travelled" - Wrapup

[Mark Sylvester <msylvest@spin.it>]

> From: brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
....
> I received another interesting note from a German PhD candidate
> to the effect that is was common knowledge that early German work
> used Latin terms.
> It seemed evident to him that s was the initialization of 'spatium'.
....

For the record, my Italian physics students usually tell me they assume s is
for "spazio".

Mark.

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Mark Sylvester
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