>>>>>>>When you say "do the math", what do you have in mind?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Set theory? General topology? Functional analysis? Differential geometry? Game theory? Queue theory? Euclidean geometry? Any other geometry? Trigonometry? Complex analysis? Theory of differential equations? Number theory? Boolean algebra? Fuzzy logic? Probability? Galois groups? Field theory? Vector spaces? Tensors? Linear algebra?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yes.
>>>>>
>>>>>Yet another individuum from whom the whole science of psychology extracts a three-letter response. I should have tried a larger challenge - maybe, sexology, by means of which we may get a four-letter response. Next time, then.
>>>>
>>>>You phrased the question, with the infamous quotes, as "do the math" which is a very specific phrase. To anyone in the US that means to add things and come up with a conclusion. Not really all that much to it. I don't think anyone took it as you seriously looking for something deep. I would think that the fact that some of us took it lightly really shouldn't bother you much.
>>>
>>>I'm not bothered. This was a light joke on a light subject, to lighten the mood and shed some light on the whole subject of big words tossed around lightly without much more than a superficial connection to their actual meaning.
>>>
>>>It may become serious when someone who knows how to add begins to think he knows math.
>>
>>Or when someone who knows math begins to think they know how to "do the math."
>
>You're all wrong anyway (in the USA). It's "Maths" (in the UK), as in abbrev for "mathematics"

We're just more efficient, T.