Timeline for Positive Derivative
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| May 20, 2010 at 7:55 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | Crescendo... $ $ | |
| May 19, 2010 at 23:05 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | "Croissant" has the obvious dual sense in French (AFAIK) so I wouldn't be surprised to see this in other, related languages | |
| May 19, 2010 at 15:52 | comment | added | Andrey Rekalo | According to Wikipedia, the word "crescent" itself, derived from the Latin verb crescere "to grow", literally means "waxing" or "increasing", and was originally applied to the form of the waxing moon (luna crescens). | |
| May 19, 2010 at 15:38 | comment | added | Michael Hoffman | I think it's a translation from something that means "waxing" (like the moon, or "waning" I can never remember which is which). | |
| May 19, 2010 at 15:15 | answer | added | Andrey Rekalo | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 19, 2010 at 15:06 | comment | added | Gordon Craig | Does crescent mean increasing? | |
| May 19, 2010 at 14:43 | history | asked | Filipe Hasche | CC BY-SA 2.5 |