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by magicalhippo 2445 days ago
Your m is the relativistic mass while the m0 is invariant mass, also known as rest mass, which is what GP was talking about.

AFAIK, most physicists these days will only use the invariant mass, or at least be explicit about it if they talk about the relativistic mass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant_mass