On 30/07/2013 22:03, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 30/07/2013 16:13, Farmer Giles wrote:

I'd be grateful if you could now do me a favour. Please call it 'maths',
and not the irritating Americanism 'math'.

cough This is arithmetic.

Andy

cough Trigonometry is maths. The final calculation is arguably
arithmetic, but the process that defined the calculation is definitely
mathematics.