Timeline for How did "normal" come to mean "perpendicular"?
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| Jun 29, 2014 at 4:23 | comment | added | krowe | AFAIK, it is a myth. I originally heard the story from a high school math teacher who prefaced it by saying that the actual meaning was lost to time and this was just one possibility. I don't think it matters though because this is the best way I know of to understand the relation which is what really matters IMHO. | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 11:26 | comment | added | GreenAsJade | Do you have any basis for this suggestion for the etymology, or is it simply "you guess it might be so"? | |
| Jun 27, 2014 at 16:10 | history | edited | krowe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2014 at 11:36 | history | answered | krowe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |