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the spreadsheet that grew teeth, ran the math, and tried to enslave humanity.
means A grid of rows and columns in which something is arranged, computed, or generated — whether numbers in math, cells in a table, or the womb-like environment in which a thing forms and takes shape.
from From Latin matrix, meaning 'womb' or 'breeding female,' which itself grew from mater, 'mother' — the same root that gives us 'maternal' and 'matter.' For centuries it meant the thing that gives rise to other things: a mold, a source, a womb. Mathematicians borrowed it in the 19th century for the rectangular array from which determinants and other quantities are 'born.' So every grid of numbers is, etymologically, a mother.
- latin roots
- means womb, from mater, the mother of things
- film bullet-time
- used 120 cameras circling actors mid-air
- math muscle
- powers your phone's graphics and Google's search rankings
- red pill
- hijacked by online subcultures the directors disowned
- the math name
- coined by mathematician James Sylvester in 1850
the matrix — 1999 sci-fi film directed by the wachowskis about simulated reality
matrix reloaded — 2003 sequel continuing neo's story in the simulated world