On Mon 04 Sep 2017 at 21:23:57 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Brian wrote: > > A stochastic guy? > > German wikipedia says it's greek: stochastikē technē = The Art of Guessing.
Something similar with en. > Some mathematician obviously thought that Ratekunst does not sound Rate art? > impressive enough. Back then, greek was mandatory for getting to university. > So the word got unearthed and re-used in math. > (Still better than the fate of the word that ended up as "casemate".) I'll bite. "casemate" is to do with gun emplacements. -- Brian.
