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There is another Dutch word that must be pretty widespread in STEM circles: ‘eigenvector’.


I always thought Eigenvektor was borrowed from German, not Dutch?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalues_and_eigenvectors#H... seems to confirm the German origins, citing David Hilbert and Hermann von Helmholtz as originators of the word.



Now consider the SI units. Could those be some of the most common words between all languages?


In french, it is "vecteur propre" (which has the same meaning).




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