Hello everyone, here are some of the mathematics terminologies that are commonly mispronounced. Join me in exploring these mathematical acoustics.

Multivariate – an adjective describing any problem that uses more than one variable..

Odds – the ratio/likelihood of a probability event happening. The odds of flipping a coin and having it land on heads are one in two..

Parentheses – the symbols (and). Singular: parenthesis..

Quintic – polynomial having a degree of 5.. Quintiles – the 20th and 80th percentiles of a set of data..

Scalar – any real number, or any quantity that can be measured using a single real number..

Tenths - the first place to the right of the decimal. This is equivalent to the value out of 10. For example, 0.2 is read as two tenths and is the same as 2/10..

Trichotomy – the property of real numbers which guarantees that for any two real numbers a and b, exactly one of the following must be true: a < b, a = b, or a > b..

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