A few days ago
maeyumii

What does “B” mean in this mathematic formula?

y=mx+b

Yes, the slope intercept formula for a graph. But why did they choose “B” instead of any other letter?

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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thats just the way the mathmatician that invented it did. It could’ve been the intial letter of a greek or latin word or sumthing but most likely just what they felt like putting… Hella people have asked this in my math classes
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A few days ago
Kay B
This is known as the y-intercept where the graph cuts the y-axis.I know it as the letter c.So I guess you could use another letter.
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