Word of the Day
quotiens
Quotiens
Latin
English pronunciation/ˈkwoʊ.ʃənt/Latin original/ˈkwo.ti.ens/
“The quotient is the answer to a division problem, and the word comes from Latin quotiens — 'how many times.' Division, at its core, is just asking how many times one number fits inside another.”
Quotiens in Latin means 'how many times,' from quot (how many). The mathematical quotient answers the question: how many times does the divisor fit into the dividend? 12 divided by 3 is 4 because 3 fits into 12 exactly four times. The word entered mathematical Latin in the medieval period and was used by Fibonacci and other European mathematicians who were systematizing arithmetic in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.
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