For the more discerning connoisseur of military jargon, I offer a 1779 vintage term: “stratarithmometry” or the art of assembling an army.pic.twitter.com/9fmPeS9Wom
It speaks to the degree to which this was considered a mathematical exercise in the 18th century - all about geometry rather than anything else - that they've basically engineered a Greek word for 'army-math.'
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We have the 'army' root (στρατιά) + numbers (ἀριθμος) + measurement (μέτρον) to get to strat-arithmo-metry, roughly the science of army numbers, understood here to mean mathematically derived formations.
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Also of course speaks to the high status that demonstrations of Greek learning had at the time, but at the same time this has to be a modern science so no use just using any number of ancient Greek terms (e.g. τάξω/τάσσω or διακοσμέω) which mean effectively the same thing.
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I just saw it and thought you'd find it cool.
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