“Math” is used in USA and Canada. “Maths” is used by the rest of the English speaking world.

Yet another example of how the American education system is falling behind the rest of the world. Students in the US only learn one kind of math, but apparently the rest of the English speaking world is taught multiple kinds of maths.

I disagree to disagree, I henceforth declare this a mathses space for all mathstronauts

It derives from the latin: it's math if there's only one subject area being discussed, otherwise it's mathi.

No one has mentioned it but maths is short for mathematics. Also, your judgment of a very common figure of speech comes off as provincial.

Fair, I was being trite. The idea that the ocean is a closed system that doesn’t include all the solar energy, currents, mixing and everything else added to it plus an osmotic membrane would represent a perpetual motion machine just sounded so laughably stupid I was just trying to be equally annoying and dumb.

"Math" sounds funny as a brit - it's just what you're used to, although I will admit "math" is probably more technically correct.

Reminds me of "school of rock"

> So, get off your ath, let's do some math.

You do

+1.6 billion indians

Not native speakers. So if you count them, you need to count everyone else with English as secondary language. Then things become very messy.

Well, I guess a billion flies can be wrong.