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What’s the Argument?

Some users have been puzzled by the terms Argument 1, Argument 2 (and now Channel Argument)

Like a lot of English words, “Argument” has several distinct meanings

here are three

  1. A heated discussion
    “They got into a big argument about his drinking”

  2. Reasoning offered as proof or persuasion
    “Give me your arguments for & against investing in stocks & shares”

  3. a quantity used by a mathematical or computing function
    "if we make the arguments of rectangleArea(l,w) equal, we get the area of a square"

Midihub’s Transform uses the third meaning, so in our context we can think “Argument” = “stored value”

PS

As a native English speaker, I’ve never really known why mathematicians started using the word in this sense.

Poring over early refs –all the ways back to Chaucer– I have hunch that “argument” had an early sense of a container which sort of fits with meanings 2 & 3.

Most native English speakers, IMO, associate “argument” with conflict - very much not the Transform meaning!

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