Dammit, trending small majority not heard of it 🙁
Wanted to use it as a metaphor for a piece. Didn’t realize it was that obscure.
I think I learned it in 8th grade by which time I think STEM kids were already on a separate track. For the curious ones:
I keep forgetting how early STEM forks off from mainstream. In my high school, there were 4 tracks: CS and biology on STEM side (targeting engineering and medicine for college) and commerce and arts for humanities/social science side. I think ~40% was STEM and that was high.
HS, for me, but that was early-mid 80s, & a specialist school (Stuyvesant, NYC).
Didn’t end up using IRL until 90s for paintball type stuff.
I didn’t realize it was ‘obscure’ to so many either. Kinda sad.
Curious about your intended metaphor.