I read this article and was pleased not just with the community development, but with the spread of the word "stoop" all the way out to the West Coast.
It's a Dutch word brough over in the New Amsterdam era that was originally mostly confined to New York. It has the same etymology as English "step":
That's how I mentally processed them when first learning them years ago. Doing operations on x and y with log(x) = y in the background somehow felt far less intuitive than thinking about 10^y = x.
I really enjoyed this author's work, BTW. Just spent several hours reading the entire first five chapters or so. What an excellent refresher for high school math in general.
It's a Dutch word brough over in the New Amsterdam era that was originally mostly confined to New York. It has the same etymology as English "step":
https://www.etymonline.com/word/stoop