Stocks & Investing
In the long-term, the stock market as a whole tends to experience this type of growth.
What is exponential growth?
A function that produces a straight line is also called this.
What is linear?
When you can see the entire disk of the Moon illuminated, it is this phase.
What is full?
Many symbols in math, such as π and Σ, come from this ancient (yet still used!) alphabet.
What is Greek?
When you buy most things, the government will charge you a bit extra. That extra bit is called this.
What is sales tax?
Nvidia's stock price recently went down from $1000 to $100, but the amount of shares existing multiplied by 10. This is an example of this term.
What is a stock split?
This test, which involves a straight line, is used to determine whether a curve is a function or not.
What is the vertical line test?
Though each full moon has a name, this one, which occurs in October, is the most famous. It coincides with the end of the growing season in Europe and America.
What is the Harvest Moon?
Though cubic equations were only solved in the 1500s, this parabolic type of equation had been fully solved since at least the time of Ancient Egypt.
What are quadratic equations?
This number, which ranges from 300 to 850, can measure how financially trustworthy you are.
What is credit score?
When a company begins selling shares to the public, it is said to do this.
What is an initial public offering (IPO)?
The act of putting one function as the input to another function is called this.
Example: f(g(x))
What is function composition?
Some people drive 1080 miles in a day to see this spectacular event in which the Moon covers the Sun.
What is a total solar eclipse?
Math symbols as we know it began with François Viète, who in this century invented what would become the symbol system we now use.
What is the 16th century? (1500s)
If you spend more money than your credit card allows, uh oh! You've found yourself in this.
What is debt?
A stock option that gives a trader the right to buy shares later at a fixed price is called this.
What is a call option?
The set of all of a function's outputs is called this. A famous American folk song references putting a home on it.
What is the range?
Though the Apollo program brought 24 people to the Moon, only this number actually walked upon it.
What is 12?
This Swiss mathematician is referred to by some cultured individuals as "the math GOAT".
Who is Leonhard Euler?
When you drive on a long road trip, you can divide the distance you travelled by the amount of gas you used to calculate this.
What is gas mileage (MPG)?
If you can trace an entire function without lifting your pencil from your paper, the function is this.
What is continuous?
The Moon was hypothesized to form due to this type of event.
What is a giant impact?
This physicist and mathematician invented calculus while stuck at home during a pandemic.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The math GOAT discovered his eponymous number by analyzing this type of interest, where you earn interest on interest you've already earned.
What is compound interest?