User contributions for Jacobolus
A user with 31,437 edits. Account created on 9 January 2005.
17 May 2024
- 14:4914:49, 17 May 2024 diff hist +206 Talk:One half →Requested move 17 May 2024: Reply Tag: Reply
16 May 2024
- 16:3716:37, 16 May 2024 diff hist +418 Talk:Pythagoras →Fast Tracking a Good Article reassessment?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 16:3316:33, 16 May 2024 diff hist +2 m Talk:Pythagoras move new topic to the bottom of the page
15 May 2024
- 19:2019:20, 15 May 2024 diff hist +452 Talk:Golden ratio →Link to Wikiquote: Reply Tag: Reply
- 14:2514:25, 15 May 2024 diff hist −2 m Duodecimal Undid revision 1223954858 by 2806:310:2B:C6C3:759B:DC0E:A223:5084 (talk) current Tag: Undo
- 06:0606:06, 15 May 2024 diff hist +330 Talk:Jeremiah Horrocks →Publication date of posthumous edition: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 03:2003:20, 15 May 2024 diff hist +1,325 Talk:Jeremiah Horrocks →Publication date of posthumous edition: Reply Tag: Reply
14 May 2024
- 02:4102:41, 14 May 2024 diff hist +260 Grace Chisholm Young add link to a Google Book scan of her 1895 thesis
13 May 2024
- 20:0920:09, 13 May 2024 diff hist +652 N User:Jacobolus/Versine ←Created page with '* Bond, John David. "The development of trigonometric methods down to the close of the XVth century." Isis 4, no. 2 (1921): 295-323. {{doi|10.1086/358035}} * Cotter, Charles H. "Sines, versines and haversines in nautical astronomy." The Journal of Navigation 27, no. 4 (1974): 536-541. * Shylaja, B. S. "From navigation to star hopping: Forgotten formulae." Resonance 20, no. 4 (2015): 352-359. * Sinnott, Roger W. "Virtues of the Haversine." Sky and telescope...' current
- 18:3718:37, 13 May 2024 diff hist +11 m Talk:Cross-ratio →cross-ratio
- 18:3118:31, 13 May 2024 diff hist +299 Talk:Cross-ratio →cross-ratio: Reply Tag: Reply
- 07:4207:42, 13 May 2024 diff hist −2 m Talk:Instant centre of rotation formatting fix current
- 07:2007:20, 13 May 2024 diff hist −50 Centroid →See also: thin section a bit current
- 07:1607:16, 13 May 2024 diff hist −94 Circumcircle Undid revision 1223606708 by Jlwoodwa (talk) – this does nothing because a floating image gets in the way. while we're at it let's thin the list a bit, and consolidate external links current
- 07:0707:07, 13 May 2024 diff hist −45 m Talk:Incenter american english is already specified on the page. we don't need a banner on the talk page too current
- 07:0507:05, 13 May 2024 diff hist −466 m Talk:Incenter →External links modified: trim some bot boilerplate
- 07:0307:03, 13 May 2024 diff hist +16 m Talk:Incenter →Untitled: let's make up a more meaningful heading than "untitled"
- 07:0207:02, 13 May 2024 diff hist +13 m Talk:De Longchamps point we might as well make up a more meaningful heading than "untitled" current
- 05:3005:30, 13 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Hipparchus Undid revision 1223587910 by 110.145.243.146 (talk) rvv Tag: Undo
- 01:2501:25, 13 May 2024 diff hist +275 Talk:Computer programming →sequence of instructions: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 01:2301:23, 13 May 2024 diff hist +256 Talk:Computer programming →sequence of instructions: Reply Tag: Reply
- 01:1801:18, 13 May 2024 diff hist +278 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology
- 01:1401:14, 13 May 2024 diff hist +324 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology: Reply Tag: Reply
- 01:1201:12, 13 May 2024 diff hist +284 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology: Reply Tag: Reply
12 May 2024
- 21:0421:04, 12 May 2024 diff hist +195 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology: Reply Tag: Reply
- 20:5220:52, 12 May 2024 diff hist +330 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology: Reply Tag: Reply
- 20:3820:38, 12 May 2024 diff hist −103 Sine and cosine Undid revision 1223540630 by Altenmann (talk) – I agree, take it to the talk page. if you like, feel free to restore the stable version from yesterday while the topic is under discussion. Tag: Undo
- 20:3520:35, 12 May 2024 diff hist −103 Sine and cosine Undid revision 1223539982 by Altenmann (talk) – no, this phrasing is confusing and backward. we want to put things in historical order greek -> indian synonyms -> transliteration into arabic -> mistranslation into Latin, not shove latin at the front. the www.dictionary.com link also isn't very useful to readers Tags: Manual revert Reverted
- 20:3120:31, 12 May 2024 diff hist +9 Sine and cosine this is not a context where we're using precise linguistics jargon, but if you like we can use some other phrase clearly indicating decent. e.g. "originated in".
- 20:2620:26, 12 May 2024 diff hist +8 Sine and cosine Undid revision 1223526851 by Altenmann (talk) derives is much more precise than "related" which is too vague. there are a few steps in between, as explained in the subsequent sentences Tags: Undo Reverted
- 18:4318:43, 12 May 2024 diff hist −1,629 Sine and cosine revert – this material is already covered below in the "etymology" section Tag: Undo
- 17:3617:36, 12 May 2024 diff hist +306 Talk:Parallel (operator) →Product over sum: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 07:3307:33, 12 May 2024 diff hist +1 Leibniz formula for π Undid revision 1223456043 by 2A0A:EF40:A04:8801:65A1:6B22:BBBC:DB71 (talk) current Tag: Undo
11 May 2024
- 19:0219:02, 11 May 2024 diff hist −128 Limiting case (mathematics) remove useless banners. anyone can see that this article is a stub
- 19:0119:01, 11 May 2024 diff hist −9 m Limiting case (mathematics) maybe clearer to say "whose radius is zero".
10 May 2024
- 17:1417:14, 10 May 2024 diff hist −109 Jeremiah Horrocks we don't need to duplicate the clerke 1891 reference info current
- 16:4716:47, 10 May 2024 diff hist +275 Talk:Newton's method →Systems of equations article draft: Reply Tag: Reply
- 14:4214:42, 10 May 2024 diff hist +23 m Lexell's theorem No edit summary current
- 02:5802:58, 10 May 2024 diff hist +165 Talk:Newton's method →Systems of equations article draft: Reply Tag: Reply
- 02:5502:55, 10 May 2024 diff hist +279 Talk:Newton's method →Systems of equations article draft
- 02:5102:51, 10 May 2024 diff hist +324 Talk:Newton's method →Systems of equations article draft: Reply Tag: Reply
9 May 2024
- 20:0420:04, 9 May 2024 diff hist +636 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative: Reply Tag: Reply
- 19:2219:22, 9 May 2024 diff hist +60 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative
- 19:2019:20, 9 May 2024 diff hist +416 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:0918:09, 9 May 2024 diff hist +124 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative
- 18:0618:06, 9 May 2024 diff hist +18 m Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Eisenstein's number-theoretic paper: reflist
- 18:0518:05, 9 May 2024 diff hist +152 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:3015:30, 9 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Talk:Pythagorean theorem →Trigometric proofs: sp
- 15:3015:30, 9 May 2024 diff hist +274 Talk:Pythagorean theorem →Trigometric proofs
- 15:2615:26, 9 May 2024 diff hist +503 Talk:Pythagorean theorem →Trigometric proofs: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:2115:21, 9 May 2024 diff hist −101 Sridhara →Works: remove "separated algebra from arithmetic" and "wrote on the practical applications of algebra". these seem too vague, and it's not clear why they are "notable". it would be good to have a more complete accounting of the content of his works here. current
- 15:1815:18, 9 May 2024 diff hist −17 m Sridhara →Life: tighten
- 14:5214:52, 9 May 2024 diff hist +2 m Law of sines →Relation to the circumcircle: smaller image, entirely inside relevant section current
- 14:5214:52, 9 May 2024 diff hist +24 Law of sines →The ambiguous case of triangle solution: make image smaller
- 01:0601:06, 9 May 2024 diff hist +29 N Maja desnuda ←Redirected page to La maja desnuda current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
- 01:0601:06, 9 May 2024 diff hist +29 N Maja vestida ←Redirected page to La maja vestida current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
8 May 2024
- 17:5617:56, 8 May 2024 diff hist −140 Bhāskara II take out some of the banners. if there are problematic sources, please remove them or start a specific discussion. if there are problematic claims, please tag them specifically. these vague banners are not accomplishing anything
- 17:5317:53, 8 May 2024 diff hist −78 Bhāskara II remove "He is the only ancient mathematician who has been immortalized on a monument". This unsourced claim is almost certainly false, but even if true doesn't seem important enough for the lead section
- 17:5117:51, 8 May 2024 diff hist +30 m Bhāskara II No edit summary
- 17:4917:49, 8 May 2024 diff hist −3 Bhāskara II it's weird having Bhāskara II written twice here. change first instance to just Bhāskara
- 17:4717:47, 8 May 2024 diff hist −189 m Talk:Bhāskara II Undid revision 1222892313 by 2409:4085:28A:4907:0:0:2312:90AD (talk) current Tag: Undo
- 17:4617:46, 8 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Imaginary number →Square roots of negative numbers
- 15:1915:19, 8 May 2024 diff hist −10 Imaginary number better alignment in table of powers of i
- 15:1415:14, 8 May 2024 diff hist +221 Imaginary number →Square roots of negative numbers: add more prose discussing the issue
- 14:4514:45, 8 May 2024 diff hist +102 m Imaginary number →Square roots of negative numbers: use phantom height for more consistent square root placement
- 14:4014:40, 8 May 2024 diff hist +19 m Quadrilateral Undid revision 1222878786 by 2001:4454:164:3200:6C47:4669:96A9:24BF (talk) rvv Tag: Undo
7 May 2024
- 19:1719:17, 7 May 2024 diff hist −1 m Talk:Pythagoras Undid revision 1222759068 by 77.102.75.42 (talk) rvv Tag: Undo
6 May 2024
- 23:3923:39, 6 May 2024 diff hist +2 m Greek mathematics hero -> heron. the later spelling is much more common in mathematical literature ("hero" is more common in some other fields)
- 23:3823:38, 6 May 2024 diff hist −2 Hero of Alexandria we can put "hellenistic mathematician" if people object to "greek". Tag: Reverted
- 23:3023:30, 6 May 2024 diff hist −7 Hero of Alexandria rv. misleading ethno-nationalism. "Alexandria" and "Egypt" are prominently mentioned here. we have no knowledge whatsoever of Heron's ethnicity, and he wrote in Greek, as part of the tradition of Greek mathematics, which while influenced by other mathematical traditions was its own distinct thing Tag: Undo
- 23:2523:25, 6 May 2024 diff hist −4 m Talk:Diameter →Not manual: fix indent
- 23:2423:24, 6 May 2024 diff hist +229 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 19:2819:28, 6 May 2024 diff hist −13 Percentage remove redundant "grade" wikilink current
- 19:2319:23, 6 May 2024 diff hist −1,411 Percent sign remove spam archive links for still-living pages. these can be restored if and when these links ever rot current
- 19:1719:17, 6 May 2024 diff hist −1 Percent sign split non-(1/100) uses of this symbol from text encodings and input methods, which are largely unrelated topics
- 19:0019:00, 6 May 2024 diff hist +529 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Log vs ln: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:5318:53, 6 May 2024 diff hist +390 Talk:Diameter →Not manual
- 18:3418:34, 6 May 2024 diff hist +47 Theodosius' Spherics more precise current
- 16:1616:16, 6 May 2024 diff hist −20 Leibniz formula for π revert – for better or worse this remains a minority name in the published literature, but is clearly and prominently mentioned. One alternative might be to merge this article with arctangent series, which is a more descriptive title Tag: Undo
- 16:1116:11, 6 May 2024 diff hist +263 Talk:Pythagorean theorem →Trigometric proofs: Reply Tag: Reply
- 16:0516:05, 6 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Ptolemy's theorem →Proof using complex numbers: typo current
- 16:0416:04, 6 May 2024 diff hist +31 Ptolemy's theorem →Proof using complex numbers: take wikilink out of the heading
- 14:4514:45, 6 May 2024 diff hist +605 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 14:4014:40, 6 May 2024 diff hist +115 Talk:Diameter →Not manual
- 14:3714:37, 6 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Talk:Diameter →Not manual: typo
- 14:3714:37, 6 May 2024 diff hist +495 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 00:0700:07, 6 May 2024 diff hist +91 Talk:Diameter No edit summary
- 00:0300:03, 6 May 2024 diff hist +287 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
5 May 2024
- 23:5623:56, 5 May 2024 diff hist +241 Talk:Diameter →Not manual
- 23:5423:54, 5 May 2024 diff hist +414 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 23:5023:50, 5 May 2024 diff hist +534 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 22:4722:47, 5 May 2024 diff hist +579 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 20:5520:55, 5 May 2024 diff hist +563 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 20:4920:49, 5 May 2024 diff hist −20 m Talk:Diameter →Not manual: soften
- 20:4720:47, 5 May 2024 diff hist +283 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 20:4220:42, 5 May 2024 diff hist −1,518 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: rm duplicate quotation
- 20:3820:38, 5 May 2024 diff hist +157 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 19:2619:26, 5 May 2024 diff hist +2,628 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:5017:50, 5 May 2024 diff hist +16 m Al Baydha Project No edit summary current
- 17:4817:48, 5 May 2024 diff hist −5 Al Baydha Project wikipedia shouldn't include honorific titles such as "her royal highness"
- 16:2716:27, 5 May 2024 diff hist −98 Cylinder it's not a "perspectivity effect" (whatever that means). it's just a poorly drawn picture
- 06:0806:08, 5 May 2024 diff hist +235 Talk:Cylinder →Incorrect height designation in the figure: Reply Tag: Reply
- 02:2302:23, 5 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Diameter →Encodings
- 01:0601:06, 5 May 2024 diff hist +150 Diameter →Encodings: mention \varnothing
- 01:0201:02, 5 May 2024 diff hist +239 Diameter →Encodings: add mathabx
- 00:5100:51, 5 May 2024 diff hist +585 Talk:Diameter →Not manual: Reply Tag: Reply
4 May 2024
- 20:0520:05, 4 May 2024 diff hist +169 Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 May 4 →Turing recognizable: Reply Tag: Reply
- 20:0220:02, 4 May 2024 diff hist +21 m Exsecant →Catastrophic cancellation for small angles: maybe clearer this way current
- 20:0120:01, 4 May 2024 diff hist +7 m Exsecant →Catastrophic cancellation for small angles: grammar
- 19:5319:53, 4 May 2024 diff hist −34 m Exsecant tighten 'archaic' quotation
- 19:2919:29, 4 May 2024 diff hist +12 m Exsecant →References: retitle "notes and references"
- 18:5318:53, 4 May 2024 diff hist +38 User:Jacobolus/Extraversion No edit summary current
- 17:1517:15, 4 May 2024 diff hist −512 HSL and HSV Undid revision 1222167418 by 1&only (talk) – this is confusing, irrelevant, and unsourced current Tag: Undo
- 03:5403:54, 4 May 2024 diff hist +19 m Moore–Penrose inverse clarify "approximate solution" vs. "exact solution"; the previous phrasing, "solution to an equation that lacks a solution" was potentially confusing current
3 May 2024
- 19:2819:28, 3 May 2024 diff hist +119 m Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Log vs ln: strike
- 16:5316:53, 3 May 2024 diff hist −26 m Hyperrectangle we can just directly wikilink this phrase, which redirects current
- 16:2516:25, 3 May 2024 diff hist +361 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic current
- 16:1916:19, 3 May 2024 diff hist +657 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:1015:10, 3 May 2024 diff hist −38 m Harmonic divisor number take out 'footnotes' banner. the citations are directly inline in the text current
- 13:5013:50, 3 May 2024 diff hist +22 Semi-major and semi-minor axes Undid revision 1222021589 by Kwaku Nyame (talk) – these "fixes" are mostly regressions or errors, but let's keep one comma. (and while we're here also take out an unnecessary wiktionary link on semiaxis) current
2 May 2024
- 21:5621:56, 2 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Log vs ln
- 21:5521:55, 2 May 2024 diff hist +488 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics thread comments in logical relation; reply
- 19:0019:00, 2 May 2024 diff hist +200 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:4518:45, 2 May 2024 diff hist −1 m Law of cosines →Use in solving triangles: consistent indentation
- 18:4018:40, 2 May 2024 diff hist +546 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic
- 18:3318:33, 2 May 2024 diff hist +221 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic: Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:3417:34, 2 May 2024 diff hist +418 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic
- 17:2917:29, 2 May 2024 diff hist +378 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic
- 17:2517:25, 2 May 2024 diff hist +694 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic: Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:1717:17, 2 May 2024 diff hist −6 m Sridhara →Works: move inline parenthetical definition of mensuration upward
- 17:1617:16, 2 May 2024 diff hist +10 m Sridhara No edit summary
- 16:4416:44, 2 May 2024 diff hist +639 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic: more specific
- 16:3716:37, 2 May 2024 diff hist −7 m Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic: soften
- 14:5414:54, 2 May 2024 diff hist −10 Congruence (geometry) →Determining congruence: more precise about Thales
- 14:5214:52, 2 May 2024 diff hist −6 m Congruence (geometry) this image can also be standard size
- 14:3714:37, 2 May 2024 diff hist −12 m Congruence (geometry) use standard image size for these
- 14:3314:33, 2 May 2024 diff hist +901 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic: Reply Tag: Reply
- 07:1307:13, 2 May 2024 diff hist +566 Talk:Law of tangents →new "Alternate Form" section seems off topic: new section Tag: New topic
- 07:0507:05, 2 May 2024 diff hist +10 m Pons asinorum →Euclid and Proclus current
- 03:5203:52, 2 May 2024 diff hist −22 m Pons asinorum →Euclid and Proclus
- 03:2303:23, 2 May 2024 diff hist +6 m Pons asinorum →Euclid and Proclus
- 03:2203:22, 2 May 2024 diff hist −20 m Pons asinorum unnecessary wikilink
- 03:2103:21, 2 May 2024 diff hist −206 m Pons asinorum →Proofs
- 03:2003:20, 2 May 2024 diff hist −91 Pons asinorum →Euclid and Proclus: tighten up proof a bit. could maybe go further. we don't need to belabor these proofs.
- 02:0802:08, 2 May 2024 diff hist −129 Pons asinorum rv. unexplained reversion. the blockquotes seem unnecessary – the proofs are clear enough just as paragraphs – and the whitespace changes here are gratuitous and make the markup less legible. while we're at it, let's remove a citation to a finnish 404 page
1 May 2024
- 22:5122:51, 1 May 2024 diff hist −28 m Talk:Natural number take out redundant archive search box (this feature is included in the 'talk header') current
- 22:5022:50, 1 May 2024 diff hist −10 m Talk:Natural number remove space-waster "todo list"
- 22:3622:36, 1 May 2024 diff hist +118 m Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Log vs ln
- 22:3522:35, 1 May 2024 diff hist +335 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Log vs ln: Reply Tag: Reply
- 22:0922:09, 1 May 2024 diff hist −142 m Order of operations this "Cite ISO standard" template is useless, with ugly format and broken links. to the extent this citation is necessary at all, let's just link to the wikipedia page and use wikimarkup
- 21:5321:53, 1 May 2024 diff hist −35 Order of operations →Mixed division and multiplication: "disallowed" here is distracting and unnecessary
- 18:3518:35, 1 May 2024 diff hist +388 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Log vs ln: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:2718:27, 1 May 2024 diff hist +5 m Sridhara →Life
- 18:2618:26, 1 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Sridhara No edit summary
- 18:2518:25, 1 May 2024 diff hist +104 Sridhara →Life: mention conflation with others
- 18:2318:23, 1 May 2024 diff hist +48 m Sridhara No edit summary
- 18:1518:15, 1 May 2024 diff hist +36 m Sridhara No edit summary
- 18:1418:14, 1 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Sridhara No edit summary
- 18:1218:12, 1 May 2024 diff hist +22 Talk:Sridhara promote to 'start' class current
- 18:1118:11, 1 May 2024 diff hist +6 m Sridhara →Works: ce
- 18:0818:08, 1 May 2024 diff hist +100 Sridhara move some material from the lead into a 'Life' section
- 18:0218:02, 1 May 2024 diff hist +6 m Sridhara No edit summary
- 18:0218:02, 1 May 2024 diff hist −32 m Sridhara take out banner
- 18:0018:00, 1 May 2024 diff hist +18 m Sridhara →Works
- 17:5917:59, 1 May 2024 diff hist +7 m Sridhara →Works
- 17:5717:57, 1 May 2024 diff hist +528 Sridhara some cleanup of the works section
- 17:2117:21, 1 May 2024 diff hist −720 Talk:Base ten blocks →External links modified: trim excessive bot comment current
- 17:1917:19, 1 May 2024 diff hist +81 N Talk:Base ten block Jacobolus moved page Talk:Base ten block to Talk:Base ten blocks over redirect: are essentially always used as a group, and most inbound wikilinks point at the plural current Tag: New redirect
- 17:1917:19, 1 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Talk:Base ten blocks Jacobolus moved page Talk:Base ten block to Talk:Base ten blocks over redirect: are essentially always used as a group, and most inbound wikilinks point at the plural
- 17:1917:19, 1 May 2024 diff hist +76 N Base ten block Jacobolus moved page Base ten block to Base ten blocks over redirect: are essentially always used as a group, and most inbound wikilinks point at the plural current Tag: New redirect
- 17:1917:19, 1 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Base ten blocks Jacobolus moved page Base ten block to Base ten blocks over redirect: are essentially always used as a group, and most inbound wikilinks point at the plural current
- 17:0117:01, 1 May 2024 diff hist +150 m Base ten blocks No edit summary
- 16:5416:54, 1 May 2024 diff hist +166 Base ten blocks add Dienes 1960
- 15:0015:00, 1 May 2024 diff hist +344 Base ten blocks mention montessori "golden beads"
- 08:2408:24, 1 May 2024 diff hist +2 m Pons asinorum →top
- 08:2108:21, 1 May 2024 diff hist +11 Pons asinorum better byrne scan
- 07:4307:43, 1 May 2024 diff hist 0 Ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani →Works: make 'polar triangle' into a red link. we should have an article about this (and another one more generally about polar duality on the sphere) current
- 07:4207:42, 1 May 2024 diff hist +78 Ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani →Works: make it more precisely clear that we don't know if "Menelaus' theorem" was developed by him
- 07:3407:34, 1 May 2024 diff hist +60 m Sridhara →Work
- 07:3207:32, 1 May 2024 diff hist −179 Sridhara tighten bullet point about quadratic equations
- 07:2607:26, 1 May 2024 diff hist +36 Sridhara move proposals of geographical origin a couple sentences down, and make it clear that there are competing theories
- 07:1607:16, 1 May 2024 diff hist +57 Scientific notation →E notation: on rereading, this might be confusing. let's put back an introductory half of this sentence contrasting published output with program output
- 07:1207:12, 1 May 2024 diff hist +13 Scientific notation →E notation: thanks. we might as well also drop "however"
- 07:0307:03, 1 May 2024 diff hist +16 m Pons asinorum Charles Dodgson doesn't need a middle name here
- 06:4806:48, 1 May 2024 diff hist +7 Pons asinorum bigger top picture
- 06:4506:45, 1 May 2024 diff hist −432 Pons asinorum →Metaphorical usage: take out Rubik's Cube pattern. this doesn't seem like a reliable source, and this seems like irrelevant trivia. it's not clear why the name was chosen for the cube pattern
- 06:4106:41, 1 May 2024 diff hist +3 Pons asinorum →Etymology: try to rephrase Gauss sentence for clarity. could maybe be done better still (or, again, this could be moved/removed)
- 06:3806:38, 1 May 2024 diff hist +2 Pons asinorum →Etymology: comment about Gauss seems irrelevant to this section (assuming it doesn't directly involve the term "pons asinorum"), and should probably be moved or removed, but at the least we can move it to the end
- 06:3606:36, 1 May 2024 diff hist +42 Pons asinorum move note about Minsky and an "AI proof" to its own new section; this is distracting and out of scope for the lead section
- 06:3206:32, 1 May 2024 diff hist −158 Pons asinorum take out mention of the "windmill" name for the pythagorean theorem, which is irrelevant here. the point of mentioning "Dulcarnon" was its similar metaphorical use. reorder the etymology section a bit
- 06:2306:23, 1 May 2024 diff hist −6 Pons asinorum Latin pronunciation guide seems unnecessary. twiddle the first paragraph around a bit to hopefully improve its flow. move aside about an alternate medieval name to the end of the etymology section (otherwise it was a distraction)
- 06:1106:11, 1 May 2024 diff hist −58 Pons asinorum Undid revision 1221654854 by 76.14.32.104 (talk) – the blockquotes don't really seem necessary here. but let's combine the little introductory labels into the paragraphs
- 05:3805:38, 1 May 2024 diff hist +24 Pons asinorum →In inner product spaces: the claim that this vector theorem is called the "pons asinorum" really needs a citation
- 05:3105:31, 1 May 2024 diff hist −88 Pons asinorum no, this is not "further reading". while we're at it through, let's clean up some wonky proof formatting. regular paragraphs are just fine here. (though these proofs could use a rewrite for clarity, and the longer one doesn't need to be quite so detailed)
- 03:0203:02, 1 May 2024 diff hist −97 Talk:Mathematics take out american english banner. there's already a "Use American English" template in the article. also take out broken statistics banner, and reconfigure archive bot to be slightly less aggressive
- 02:5102:51, 1 May 2024 diff hist −151 Talk:Mathematics revert – seems like some kind of test edit Tag: Undo
- 02:4702:47, 1 May 2024 diff hist −455 Pons asinorum moving euclid to the 'external links' section is counter typical wiki style. let's also do some other cleanup, and take out the note about whitespace in python – irrelevant trivia
30 April 2024
- 20:4120:41, 30 April 2024 diff hist +3 m Sridhara →Bibliography
- 20:3720:37, 30 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Sridhara →Bibliography: typo
- 20:3220:32, 30 April 2024 diff hist +209 Sridhara →Bibliography: add singh 1951
- 20:2720:27, 30 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Talk:Conformal map projection demote to 'start' class current
- 20:0120:01, 30 April 2024 diff hist +15 Multiplicative group swap "group" in short description for "Mathematical structure", to make it a bit more broadly accessible current
- 19:5819:58, 30 April 2024 diff hist +17 m Sridhara Undid revision 1221585869 by Jacobolus (talk) – on second thought this is a bit more confusing Tag: Undo
- 19:5619:56, 30 April 2024 diff hist −17 m Sridhara tighten Tag: Reverted
- 19:5419:54, 30 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 19:4419:44, 30 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 18:4518:45, 30 April 2024 diff hist +1,552 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:3218:32, 30 April 2024 diff hist +32 N RC Gupta ←Redirected page to Radha Charan Gupta current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
- 18:2718:27, 30 April 2024 diff hist +478 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:2618:26, 30 April 2024 diff hist +32 N R.C. Gupta ←Redirected page to Radha Charan Gupta current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
- 18:2618:26, 30 April 2024 diff hist +32 N R. C. Gupta ←Redirected page to Radha Charan Gupta current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
- 18:2118:21, 30 April 2024 diff hist +292 Sridhara more explicitly state that we don't know Sridhara's parents or birthplace
- 18:1018:10, 30 April 2024 diff hist +599 Sridhara →Bibliography: add datta 1932, gupta 2008
- 16:0516:05, 30 April 2024 diff hist +141 m Talk:Quadratic formula →Discriminant with a bullet list
- 16:0216:02, 30 April 2024 diff hist +702 Talk:Quadratic formula →Discriminant with a bullet list: new section Tag: New topic
- 15:5415:54, 30 April 2024 diff hist +22 Quadratic formula put back the clarification that when there are complex roots of a real-coefficient quadratic, there are no real roots
- 14:4014:40, 30 April 2024 diff hist −578 Quadratic formula revert big expansion about the discriminant in the lead section. user:Number 3434 if you want to elaborate about the discriminant can you put it later in the article? it's too much for the lead section IMO Tag: Undo
- 06:4806:48, 30 April 2024 diff hist −4 m Talk:Newton's method configure archive bot a bit less aggressively on this low-traffic talk page
- 06:4606:46, 30 April 2024 diff hist −32 m Talk:Newton's method remove broken 'readership' chart
- 04:4004:40, 30 April 2024 diff hist −21 m Mathematics Undid revision 1221475771 by Brudelman (talk) – it's fine to wikilink to the redirect here. it makes the markup more legible, and at some point in the future scheme theory may become a separate article Tag: Undo
- 03:4603:46, 30 April 2024 diff hist +2 m Talk:Madhava of Sangamagrama →Image requirement: fix date on my sig current
- 03:4403:44, 30 April 2024 diff hist +1,306 Talk:Madhava of Sangamagrama →Image requirement: Reply Tag: Reply
29 April 2024
- 21:4321:43, 29 April 2024 diff hist −84 Thales of Miletus take 'know thyself' out of the lead section and move associated wikilinks to the appropriate section of the article body current
- 15:3815:38, 29 April 2024 diff hist +2 m Multivariable calculus →Limits: move a large formula into a separate line, and tweak some whitespace current
- 15:3215:32, 29 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Multivariable calculus →Limits: there was also another typo
- 15:1515:15, 29 April 2024 diff hist +118 Talk:Division by zero No edit summary
- 14:2014:20, 29 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Quadratic formula Undid revision 1221338796 by Number 3434 (talk) – commas are just fine for this Tag: Undo
- 07:3307:33, 29 April 2024 diff hist +257 Talk:Sridhara No edit summary
- 07:2907:29, 29 April 2024 diff hist +102 m Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 07:2607:26, 29 April 2024 diff hist +97 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 07:2407:24, 29 April 2024 diff hist +287 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources: Reply Tag: Reply
- 07:2207:22, 29 April 2024 diff hist +25 m Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →"Distinct" definition
- 07:2007:20, 29 April 2024 diff hist +243 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →"Distinct" definition
- 07:1507:15, 29 April 2024 diff hist +215 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →"Distinct" definition: Reply Tag: Reply
- 07:1307:13, 29 April 2024 diff hist −7,456 Mathematics Undid revision 1221309639 by CoolieCoolster (talk) – it's great that these pages are archived for the future, but we don't need to spam an archive link next to every still living page Tag: Undo
- 01:4201:42, 29 April 2024 diff hist −236 Spherical trigonometry 'forgotten books' is just a service that prints publicly available scans of old books on demand. this is not "publication" in any conventional sense, and links to there are not really valuable as a search for any old book title will turn up many such "publishers", or a reader can take a PDF to a print on demand shop for themself current
- 00:1200:12, 29 April 2024 diff hist +15 m Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →"Distinct" definition
- 00:0900:09, 29 April 2024 diff hist +469 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →"Distinct" definition: Reply Tag: Reply
- 00:0100:01, 29 April 2024 diff hist −381 Law of tangents Undid revision 1221270069 by Smichr (talk) – stack exchange is not a reliable source, and this other identity does not belong in the lead section of this article Tag: Undo
28 April 2024
- 14:2214:22, 28 April 2024 diff hist +166 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →"Distinct" definition: Reply Tag: Reply
- 14:0514:05, 28 April 2024 diff hist +289 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 14:0114:01, 28 April 2024 diff hist +40 m Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 13:5613:56, 28 April 2024 diff hist +50 Sridhara add MacTutor to this footnote as additional support for the claim that Śrīdhara is believed to come from either Bengal or South India
- 13:5313:53, 28 April 2024 diff hist +584 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 13:4513:45, 28 April 2024 diff hist +3 m Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 13:4113:41, 28 April 2024 diff hist −1,175 Sridhara Undid revision 1221153674 by Thetazero (talk) – please desist Tag: Undo
- 13:3913:39, 28 April 2024 diff hist +1,403 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources: Reply Tag: Reply
- 05:5205:52, 28 April 2024 diff hist +57 m Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 05:5105:51, 28 April 2024 diff hist −1,175 Sridhara Undid revision 1221151667 by Thetazero (talk) – you can restore this version if you (a) find some reliable sources, and (b) achieve talk page consensus. for the moment, leave the stable and accurate version Tags: Undo Reverted
- 05:5005:50, 28 April 2024 diff hist +177 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 05:4905:49, 28 April 2024 diff hist +283 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources: Reply Tag: Reply
- 05:3905:39, 28 April 2024 diff hist +113 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources
- 05:3505:35, 28 April 2024 diff hist +999 Talk:Sridhara →Reliable sources: new section Tag: New topic
- 05:3005:30, 28 April 2024 diff hist −1,175 Sridhara Undid revision 1221149057 by Thetazero (talk) – not a single one of these is a reliable source. if you persist in edit warring instead of discussing on the talk page, you can be temporarily blocked Tags: Undo Reverted
- 05:2705:27, 28 April 2024 diff hist −32 Cut locus this is not a useful banner unless you plan to do something about it. anyone can see that this is a stub. as always feel free to add more sources. Tag: Manual revert
- 05:2005:20, 28 April 2024 diff hist +15 Talk:Counting board Undid revision 1221118144 by Jlwoodwa (talk) – please don't uncollapse these current Tag: Undo
- 05:1205:12, 28 April 2024 diff hist +70 User talk:Thetazero →Sridhara Tag: Reverted
- 05:1005:10, 28 April 2024 diff hist +682 User talk:Thetazero →Sridhara: new section Tags: Reverted New topic
- 05:0405:04, 28 April 2024 diff hist −1,009 Sridhara Encyclopaedia Britannica is a reliable source by Wikipedia standards. www.ajabgajabfacts.com is not (etc.) Tag: Undo
- 03:1803:18, 28 April 2024 diff hist −940 Sridhara Undid revision 1221136617 by Thetazero (talk) – these random self-published websites are not "reliable sources" by wikipedia standards. See WP:RS. Maybe you can find a peer-reviewed paper with this info Tags: Undo Reverted
- 03:1603:16, 28 April 2024 diff hist −16 m Talk:RYB color model →Recent replies to very old discussions: grammar
- 03:1503:15, 28 April 2024 diff hist +428 Talk:RYB color model →Recent replies to very old discussions: Reply Tag: Reply
- 03:1103:11, 28 April 2024 diff hist +64 Talk:RYB color model →Revisionist negativity: split this topic, moving the confusingly top-posted comment from 2021 to its own section
- 03:0403:04, 28 April 2024 diff hist −323 m Talk:RYB color model →Recent replies to very old discussions: move old comment
- 03:0303:03, 28 April 2024 diff hist +3 m Talk:RYB color model →Recent replies to very old comments
- 03:0003:00, 28 April 2024 diff hist −36,668 Talk:RYB color model archive old conversations, but fish out recent comments from them
- 03:0003:00, 28 April 2024 diff hist +39,154 N Talk:RYB color model/Archive 1 archive old discussions
27 April 2024
- 21:2321:23, 27 April 2024 diff hist −229 m Talk:Push technology Undid revision 1221091968 by 2600:1011:B300:4724:74B7:188E:CC83:8A1C (talk) – please keep discussion specifically relevant to the article current Tag: Undo
- 15:1015:10, 27 April 2024 diff hist +244 Talk:Power of two →Non-negative and Zero: Reply Tag: Reply
- 07:1007:10, 27 April 2024 diff hist +12 Scientific notation Undid revision 1220932752 by 2003:E9:7F09:2B01:140E:FCBD:D054:5C37 (talk) – reading the document, \ is an allowed alternative, as is ⊥
- 06:4006:40, 27 April 2024 diff hist +154 Talk:RYB color model →This "blue" is not #0000FF
- 06:3906:39, 27 April 2024 diff hist +168 Talk:RYB color model →This "blue" is not #0000FF: Reply Tag: Reply
- 06:3506:35, 27 April 2024 diff hist +11 m Base ten blocks arithmetic -> elementary arithmetic: better wikilink
- 06:3306:33, 27 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Base ten blocks grammar
- 06:3206:32, 27 April 2024 diff hist −6 m Base ten blocks tighten
- 06:3106:31, 27 April 2024 diff hist +51 m Base ten blocks →top
- 06:3006:30, 27 April 2024 diff hist +36 N Base three ←Redirected page to Ternary numeral system current Tags: New redirect Uncategorized redirect
- 06:2906:29, 27 April 2024 diff hist +53 Base ten blocks rephrase various sentences, especially in the first paragraph
- 00:4300:43, 27 April 2024 diff hist −120 Talk:RYB color model rm weird duplicate banner halfway down the page
- 00:4100:41, 27 April 2024 diff hist +57 m Talk:RYB color model →This "blue" is not #0000FF
- 00:4000:40, 27 April 2024 diff hist +534 Talk:RYB color model →This "blue" is not #0000FF: Reply Tag: Reply
- 00:1300:13, 27 April 2024 diff hist +144 Talk:Power of two →Non-negative and Zero: Reply Tag: Reply
- 00:1100:11, 27 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Bijection Undid revision 1220957910 by Tickbeat (talk) – the previous version was fine and the "fix" is nonsense current Tag: Undo
26 April 2024
- 19:2719:27, 26 April 2024 diff hist −22 m Parallelogram we shouldn't need a citation for greek parallelo = parallel or gramme = line. feel free to add one if you want though.
- 19:2319:23, 26 April 2024 diff hist +7 m Base ten blocks No edit summary
- 19:2219:22, 26 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Base ten blocks No edit summary
- 19:2019:20, 26 April 2024 diff hist +2 m Base ten blocks No edit summary
- 19:1619:16, 26 April 2024 diff hist +102 m Base ten blocks No edit summary
- 19:1019:10, 26 April 2024 diff hist +22 Base ten blocks →See also: add Cuisenaire rods
- 18:5218:52, 26 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Base ten blocks No edit summary
- 18:5218:52, 26 April 2024 diff hist +722 Base ten blocks No edit summary
- 18:3418:34, 26 April 2024 diff hist +29 Power of two wikilink Dienes blocks
- 18:3218:32, 26 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Base ten blocks No edit summary
- 18:3218:32, 26 April 2024 diff hist +305 Base ten blocks No edit summary
- 18:2518:25, 26 April 2024 diff hist +31 m Power of two No edit summary
- 18:2118:21, 26 April 2024 diff hist +287 Power of two rewrite lead a bit for clarity about negative powers of two
- 18:0018:00, 26 April 2024 diff hist +20 Power of two wikilink first occurrence of 'negative'
- 17:3417:34, 26 April 2024 diff hist +11 m Ellipsoid →Limit case, ellipsoid of revolution: here too current
- 17:3417:34, 26 April 2024 diff hist +26 m Ellipsoid →Steps of the construction: shrink sqrts
- 17:3217:32, 26 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Ellipsoid tfrac
25 April 2024
- 19:4819:48, 25 April 2024 diff hist −6 m CIELAB color space →Coordinates
- 19:4719:47, 25 April 2024 diff hist −8 m CIELAB color space →Coordinates
- 15:3215:32, 25 April 2024 diff hist +52 m Sequence →Exact sequences: use overset instead of xrightarrow so the fs render closer to the arrows and their tops don't get chopped off current
- 15:2615:26, 25 April 2024 diff hist −39 m Sequence →Cauchy sequences: latex fix, more explicit wikilink to a section
- 15:2315:23, 25 April 2024 diff hist +21 m Sequence →Applications and important results: manual paren size. this whole section should probably be rewritten without the mixture of latex with bullet lists, which renders kind of ugly
- 15:1715:17, 25 April 2024 diff hist +71 m Sequence →Formal definition and basic properties
- 15:1115:11, 25 April 2024 diff hist +233 m Sequence →Indexing: make sure superscript ∞ renders at the right height
- 15:0015:00, 25 April 2024 diff hist +16 m Sequence italicize words being referred to directly as words
- 14:5714:57, 25 April 2024 diff hist +215 Talk:Apollonius of Perga →Double cone: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 14:5114:51, 25 April 2024 diff hist −46 m Talk:Trigonometry →"Allied angles" listed at Redirects for discussion current
- 14:5014:50, 25 April 2024 diff hist +1,646 Talk:Trigonometry →"Allied angles" listed at Redirects for discussion
- 14:4214:42, 25 April 2024 diff hist +326 Talk:Trigonometry →How to proof identies: Reply Tag: Reply
24 April 2024
- 21:5021:50, 24 April 2024 diff hist +742 User:Jacobolus/Stereo No edit summary current
- 17:4117:41, 24 April 2024 diff hist +162 User:Jacobolus/Stereo No edit summary
- 17:3917:39, 24 April 2024 diff hist +19 User:Jacobolus/Stereo No edit summary
- 17:3817:38, 24 April 2024 diff hist +119 User:Jacobolus/Stereo →Graphical methods (stereonet, etc.)
- 16:3216:32, 24 April 2024 diff hist −250 Ancient Greek astronomy move uncited materials to 'further reading'
- 16:2616:26, 24 April 2024 diff hist +5 m Ancient Greek astronomy →Citations: narrower columns
- 15:1215:12, 24 April 2024 diff hist +501 Talk:Federal Standard 595 →Why was this article split into 2?: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 03:5303:53, 24 April 2024 diff hist +22 Collinearity →See also: add concyclic; in the context of e.g. inversive geometry, lines are treated as a non-special type of circle, and points being colinear or concyclic are considered equivalent current
- 03:4903:49, 24 April 2024 diff hist −26 m Abacus →Feynman vs the abacus: this is about a Japanese person who happened to be in Brazil, not a Japanese–Brazilian Tag: Manual revert
23 April 2024
- 21:2621:26, 23 April 2024 diff hist −1 Descartes' theorem Undid revision 1220450366 by DavisGL (talk) – no this is wrong. why was this regression marked as a "minor edit"? Tag: Undo
- 16:2616:26, 23 April 2024 diff hist −461 Euler's formula this sentence about "mathematical beauty" is distracting and unnecessary in the lead section
- 16:2216:22, 23 April 2024 diff hist +29 m Complex number →History
- 16:2116:21, 23 April 2024 diff hist −204 Complex number →History: if we're going to have an animation here, an animated circle is clearer than the helix. also tighten up caption
- 07:1607:16, 23 April 2024 diff hist −3 Ancient Greek astronomy →Hipparchus: let's specify 'precession of the equinoxes', a more relevant wikilink
22 April 2024
- 20:3820:38, 22 April 2024 diff hist −7 m Real number →top: a bare √ here is better than the "radic" template which has semi-broken rendering current
- 20:3420:34, 22 April 2024 diff hist −36 m Real number →Decimal representation
- 20:2920:29, 22 April 2024 diff hist −27 m Real number →Decimal representation
- 20:2520:25, 22 April 2024 diff hist +574 Real number →Decimal representation: try to rewrite for accessibility. the previous one starts out too dry and technical and I worry it would leave many readers behind. also swap a -> x to avoid confusion with the digits a_i and b_i
- 20:0120:01, 22 April 2024 diff hist +538 Talk:Ancient Greek astronomy →Unsourced sections: Reply Tag: Reply
- 19:5819:58, 22 April 2024 diff hist +237 User talk:Jacobolus →Lemniscate functions and number theory: Reply Tag: Reply
- 19:4419:44, 22 April 2024 diff hist −3 m Talk:Ancient Greek astronomy →Unsourced sections
- 19:1919:19, 22 April 2024 diff hist +769 Talk:Ancient Greek astronomy →Unsourced sections: new section Tag: New topic
- 18:5718:57, 22 April 2024 diff hist +342 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:2418:24, 22 April 2024 diff hist +58 m Talk:Quaternion →Extend
- 18:2418:24, 22 April 2024 diff hist +227 Talk:Quaternion →Extend: Reply Tag: Reply
- 11:2011:20, 22 April 2024 diff hist +177 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 06:3206:32, 22 April 2024 diff hist +231 Talk:Voronoi diagram →I made a O(n) voronoi algorithm: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 05:0405:04, 22 April 2024 diff hist +1,572 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 02:1802:18, 22 April 2024 diff hist +222 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 01:2901:29, 22 April 2024 diff hist −233 m Talk:Decimal Undid revision 1220127565 by 2409:40F0:1120:2E80:5973:C4D8:D07F:178C (talk) rvv current Tag: Undo
- 01:2701:27, 22 April 2024 diff hist +275 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 00:5800:58, 22 April 2024 diff hist +255 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: I am certainly no expert
- 00:4900:49, 22 April 2024 diff hist +354 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
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21 April 2024
- 22:1422:14, 21 April 2024 diff hist −92 Bernoulli polynomials →Explicit expressions for low degrees: let's put these in columns instead of rows, which is more compact since the earlier polynomials are shorter current
- 21:5821:58, 21 April 2024 diff hist −24 m Unsharp masking Undid revision 1220110987 by Eshan bhuse (talk) – this apparently irrelevant link doesn't belong in 'see also' for this article. also, why the mismatched edit summary? Tag: Undo
- 20:5320:53, 21 April 2024 diff hist +288 m Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted
- 20:4120:41, 21 April 2024 diff hist +144 m Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted
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- 20:3620:36, 21 April 2024 diff hist +311 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 19:2019:20, 21 April 2024 diff hist +8,597 Ancient Greek astronomy Undid revision 1220084266 by Pogenplain (talk) – this seems unhelpful. if these parts need rewriting with better sources, why not just pick one and go for it? If there are particular claims that you can't verify / seem false or misleading, by all means take them out. some of the part deleted here seems uncontroversial though Tag: Undo
- 19:1019:10, 21 April 2024 diff hist +637 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 19:0519:05, 21 April 2024 diff hist +725 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:5718:57, 21 April 2024 diff hist −62 m Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: redundant parenthetical
- 18:5618:56, 21 April 2024 diff hist +1,115 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 16:1716:17, 21 April 2024 diff hist +612 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:3115:31, 21 April 2024 diff hist +585 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted
- 10:4810:48, 21 April 2024 diff hist +165 User talk:Jacobolus reply
- 03:3303:33, 21 April 2024 diff hist −102 m 420 (cannabis culture) →Legislation and other government recognition: take out challenged "deliberate reference" claim; this is unnecessary to state explicitly, any reader can figure it out
- 02:5002:50, 21 April 2024 diff hist +327 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Accessibility of Newton's method
- 02:4802:48, 21 April 2024 diff hist +911 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Accessibility of Newton's method: Reply Tag: Reply
- 02:3602:36, 21 April 2024 diff hist +49 m Moore–Penrose inverse consolidate adjacent footnotes, move footnotes after commas
- 02:2302:23, 21 April 2024 diff hist +850 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics →Accessibility of Newton's method: new section Tag: New topic
- 01:5501:55, 21 April 2024 diff hist +340 User talk:Jacobolus →The previous page is less than updated: Reply Tag: Reply
- 01:4801:48, 21 April 2024 diff hist +1,248 User talk:Jacobolus →The previous page is less than updated: Reply Tag: Reply
- 00:4200:42, 21 April 2024 diff hist −8,446 Newton's method Undid revision 1219950408 by Fangong00 (talk) – please take this to the talk page rather than edit warring. See WP:BRD – your changes were the "B" for "bold edits", this is the "R" for revert step, next comes the "D" for discuss Tags: Undo Reverted
20 April 2024
- 18:2818:28, 20 April 2024 diff hist +25 m Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted
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- 18:2218:22, 20 April 2024 diff hist −8,400 Newton's method revert to previous version with a much clearer logical structure and more accessible introduction Tag: Reverted
- 18:1418:14, 20 April 2024 diff hist +100 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted
- 18:1218:12, 20 April 2024 diff hist +1,164 Talk:Newton's method →Recent changes should be reverted: new section Tag: New topic
- 17:1417:14, 20 April 2024 diff hist +87 Moore–Penrose inverse bold "pseudoinverse" in the lead section and move it toward the top, as a very common name for this, but add a clarification that pseudoinverse is sometimes used for other
- 15:2315:23, 20 April 2024 diff hist −1,391 m Division by zero Undid revision 1219862369 by Ost316 (talk) – it's great that these are archived for the future, but we don't need to scatter archive link spam for every still-living page Tag: Undo
- 08:2608:26, 20 April 2024 diff hist +22 m Talk:Voronoi diagram →I made a O(n) voronoi algorithm
- 08:2508:25, 20 April 2024 diff hist +798 Talk:Voronoi diagram →I made a O(n) voronoi algorithm
- 08:1708:17, 20 April 2024 diff hist +250 Talk:Voronoi diagram →I made a O(n) voronoi algorithm: Reply Tag: Reply
19 April 2024
- 16:0716:07, 19 April 2024 diff hist +395 Talk:Voronoi diagram →I made a O(n) voronoi algorithm: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:5915:59, 19 April 2024 diff hist −142 Voronoi diagram revert a couple edits. I have no idea what this addition to the caption is trying to say ("Although all of the polygons are still convex, a polygon may have multiple seeds relative to surrounding polygons, rather than a single seed"). in any event, it doesn't seem necessary Tag: Undo
- 15:5515:55, 19 April 2024 diff hist −102 Tessellation Undid revision 1219671991 by Anachronist (talk) This elaboration seems unnecessary and distracting. (Aside: this is not a "copyedit") Tag: Undo
- 14:5614:56, 19 April 2024 diff hist +10 m Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Not-greater-than rendering problems
- 14:5414:54, 19 April 2024 diff hist +658 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Not-greater-than rendering problems
- 14:4014:40, 19 April 2024 diff hist +136 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Not-greater-than rendering problems: Reply Tag: Reply
18 April 2024
- 06:4006:40, 18 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers →Decimals: change 0.333 palms to 0.33 palms. 3 significant figures for such an inherently low-precision unit is gratuitous Tag: Reverted
- 01:3801:38, 18 April 2024 diff hist +199 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Should we more strongly recommend the use of mvar/math templates in preference to italic sans serif?: Reply Tag: Reply
17 April 2024
- 20:3320:33, 17 April 2024 diff hist +345 Talk:Quaternion →Extend: Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:3317:33, 17 April 2024 diff hist +239 User talk:Beland →Please stop converting thin spaces to ordinary spaces in mathematical typography.: Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:2117:21, 17 April 2024 diff hist +289 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Should we more strongly recommend the use of mvar/math templates in preference to italic sans serif?
- 17:1717:17, 17 April 2024 diff hist +188 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Should we more strongly recommend the use of mvar/math templates in preference to italic sans serif?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:1217:12, 17 April 2024 diff hist 0 m User talk:Beland →Please stop converting thin spaces to ordinary spaces in mathematical typography.
- 17:1217:12, 17 April 2024 diff hist +779 User talk:Beland →Please stop converting thin spaces to ordinary spaces in mathematical typography.: Reply Tag: Reply
- 14:2114:21, 17 April 2024 diff hist −20 m Numero sign →Typing the symbol: tighter
- 14:2014:20, 17 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Numero sign →Typing the symbol
- 14:1814:18, 17 April 2024 diff hist −207 Numero sign →Typing the symbol: tighten this section and take out un-encyclopedic instructions
- 13:3713:37, 17 April 2024 diff hist +139 Duodecimal Undid revision 1219387354 by Spitzak (talk) – what's the point of taking out this clarification? remember, the audience here might include people with very little numerical fluency Tag: Undo
- 12:4612:46, 17 April 2024 diff hist −17 Duodecimal →Transdecimal symbols: clarify
- 12:4012:40, 17 April 2024 diff hist −167 m Duodecimal the section banner seems entirely unnecessary if there's also an explicit tag on the unsourced claim
- 12:3512:35, 17 April 2024 diff hist +6 m Division by zero Undid revision 1219380039 by 180.230.94.87 (talk) Tag: Undo
- 12:2612:26, 17 April 2024 diff hist −28 Division by zero Undid revision 1219379853 by 180.230.94.87 (talk) – huh? Tag: Undo
- 05:3805:38, 17 April 2024 diff hist +387 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Should we more strongly recommend the use of mvar/math templates in preference to italic sans serif?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 05:1805:18, 17 April 2024 diff hist +43 m Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Should we more strongly recommend the use of mvar/math templates in preference to italic sans serif?
- 05:1705:17, 17 April 2024 diff hist +492 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Should we more strongly recommend the use of mvar/math templates in preference to italic sans serif?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 04:1404:14, 17 April 2024 diff hist +19 User:Jacobolus/monobook.css No edit summary current
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- 04:0404:04, 17 April 2024 diff hist +108 m Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Should we more strongly recommend the use of mvar/math templates in preference to italic sans serif?
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- 03:4703:47, 17 April 2024 diff hist +24 m Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Blackboard bold: try to clarify one more time. sorry for edit summary spam.
- 03:4503:45, 17 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Blackboard bold: tweak: 'bold letters' reads better than 'bold fonts' in a couple places
- 03:4303:43, 17 April 2024 diff hist −6 m Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Blackboard bold: simpler
- 03:4203:42, 17 April 2024 diff hist +213 Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics →Blackboard bold: rewrite section a bit for accuracy
- 03:2703:27, 17 April 2024 diff hist +795 User talk:Beland →Please stop converting thin spaces to ordinary spaces in mathematical typography.: Reply Tag: Reply
- 01:5301:53, 17 April 2024 diff hist +721 User talk:Beland →Please stop converting thin spaces to ordinary spaces in mathematical typography.: new section Tag: New topic
- 01:4901:49, 17 April 2024 diff hist −8 Tensor Undid revision 1219321937 by Beland (talk) partial revert. please don't take out thin spaces automatically
- 01:4301:43, 17 April 2024 diff hist +649 Talk:Trigonometric functions →tg should not be used.: Reply Tag: Reply
16 April 2024
- 19:1219:12, 16 April 2024 diff hist +81 Euclidean plane fix katz citation a bit, and clarify the text it supports. unfortunately this section and the article in general remains extremely unbalanced, focusing on cartesian coordinates with most of the history of the Euclidean plane largely ignored
- 17:2817:28, 16 April 2024 diff hist +8 Function (mathematics) put back "exactly one", which I think was helpful here: we want to be clear and explicit that (a) there is at least one element of Y assigned, and (b) there is no more than one element of Y assigned. Including "exactly" is redundant but more emphatic and leaves no room for confusion
- 16:4116:41, 16 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Simply connected space →Definition and equivalent formulations: italicize ''not'' in the caption for emphasis current
- 16:3616:36, 16 April 2024 diff hist +709 Talk:Continuous function →1/x is discontinuous at 0?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 14:3714:37, 16 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Talk:Continuous function put new comment below older comments, still indented to indicate what it's replying to. in general, please try not to sort comments out of order
- 02:1102:11, 16 April 2024 diff hist +650 Talk:Delaunay triangulation →upside-down: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 01:2801:28, 16 April 2024 diff hist +108 m Talk:Delaunay triangulation add signature to accidentally unsigned comment
- 01:2401:24, 16 April 2024 diff hist +511 Talk:Delaunay triangulation →upside-down: Reply Tag: Reply
15 April 2024
- 19:5619:56, 15 April 2024 diff hist +368 Talk:Complex number →More justification and intuition, please!: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 19:3619:36, 15 April 2024 diff hist −122 m Talk:Continuous function →1/x is discontinuous at 0?: take out misplaced "test" edit
- 18:0618:06, 15 April 2024 diff hist +8 m Delaunay triangulation →Properties: downsize parens in inline formula
- 18:0418:04, 15 April 2024 diff hist +472 Talk:Delaunay triangulation →One of the claims contains a poor reference.: restore IP editor's signature to their comment, and add the reference from the article
- 15:4815:48, 15 April 2024 diff hist +1,027 Template talk:Talk header →minimum number of sections archived: Reply Tag: Reply
- 05:4705:47, 15 April 2024 diff hist −21 Isaak Yaglom shorten shortdesc to just "mathematician" from "mathematician, educator and author"; most mathematicians are also educators and authors of some form. let's aim for concision current
- 05:3505:35, 15 April 2024 diff hist +288 Theodosius of Bithynia →References: link section from Van Brummelen 2009 current
14 April 2024
- 19:5519:55, 14 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Concentric objects Undid revision 1218931314 by 92.5.175.36 (talk) – please don't gratuitously switch between varieties of english. see WP:ENGVAR Tag: Undo
- 19:4919:49, 14 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Proof that π is irrational fix unary minus spacing current
- 19:4019:40, 14 April 2024 diff hist +30 Talk:Hallade method No edit summary current
- 19:2719:27, 14 April 2024 diff hist +510 Talk:Hallade method →This article seems to imply Hallade originated the idea of measuring the versine/sagitta of a circular arc: new section Tag: New topic
- 19:2119:21, 14 April 2024 diff hist +813 Talk:Sagitta (geometry) →Diagram Improvement current
- 17:2917:29, 14 April 2024 diff hist −22 Fitts's law get a working archive link originally from the author's website current
- 08:2008:20, 14 April 2024 diff hist +595 Template talk:Talk header →minimum number of sections archived: Reply Tag: Reply
- 08:0308:03, 14 April 2024 diff hist +261 Template talk:Talk header →minimum number of sections archived: Reply Tag: Reply
- 07:1807:18, 14 April 2024 diff hist +565 Template talk:Talk header →New and modified bot notice wording proposals
- 07:1507:15, 14 April 2024 diff hist +273 Template talk:Talk header →minimum number of sections archived: Reply Tag: Reply
- 01:2701:27, 14 April 2024 diff hist −13 MUL.APIN let's put the wikilinks on the explicit names to make it clearer for readers. also it's not clear why we're linking german wikipedia for Scorpius and Anu, let's just use English wikipedia links
- 01:1701:17, 14 April 2024 diff hist +23 m Trigonometric polynomial →Formal definition: clarify current
- 01:1401:14, 14 April 2024 diff hist +171 Talk:Trigonometric polynomial →Small problem with the definition(?) current
- 01:1301:13, 14 April 2024 diff hist +78 m Trigonometric polynomial →Formal definition: use slightly prosier specification that we need a term of degree N
- 01:1001:10, 14 April 2024 diff hist −103 Trigonometric polynomial →Formal definition: it's clearer to just take out these explicit lists of indices in the follow-up, which are clearly specified by the summation limits
13 April 2024
- 22:2222:22, 13 April 2024 diff hist +292 Talk:Continued fraction →Constructive observation: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 22:1722:17, 13 April 2024 diff hist +7 m Turkish draughts →Rules: more specific section link current
- 19:3719:37, 13 April 2024 diff hist +180 Talk:Continued fraction →Constructive observation: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:4518:45, 13 April 2024 diff hist −48 Rounding take out "it should be noted"; Wikipedia style manual discourages these, see MOS:NOTED and WP:NOTED
- 18:3318:33, 13 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Wikipedia:Featured article review/0.999.../archive2 →0.999...: Erdős
- 16:0116:01, 13 April 2024 diff hist +771 Talk:Continuous function →1/x is discontinuous at 0?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:5815:58, 13 April 2024 diff hist −4 m Continuous function →Definition: typo current
- 15:5715:57, 13 April 2024 diff hist +47 Continuous function →Definition: wikilink the example functions (reciprocal function and tangent function)
- 15:4715:47, 13 April 2024 diff hist +249 Template talk:Archives →Proposal to drop archiving params
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- 07:1007:10, 13 April 2024 diff hist +1,365 Talk:Continuous function →1/x is discontinuous at 0?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 06:0906:09, 13 April 2024 diff hist +650 Talk:Continuous function →1/x is discontinuous at 0?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 06:0306:03, 13 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Holomorphic function →Terminology: fix date current
- 04:1004:10, 13 April 2024 diff hist +257 Talk:Lagrange polynomial →Notation current
- 01:0001:00, 13 April 2024 diff hist +15 m Lagrange polynomial →Definition: workaround phantom scrollbar bug current
- 00:5800:58, 13 April 2024 diff hist −2 m Lagrange polynomial whoops, good catch. should be k additions to sum k+1 addends.
- 00:4900:49, 13 April 2024 diff hist +71 Talk:Pi →Mistake in meandering river
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12 April 2024
- 21:2221:22, 12 April 2024 diff hist −285 Division by zero Undid revision 1218615067 by 104.36.40.107 (talk) – this is entirely unsourced, not written with encyclopedic tone, and also seems frankly unnecessary. feel free to bring it up on the talk page or try again if you can find some reliable secondary sources discussing this Tag: Undo
- 20:3920:39, 12 April 2024 diff hist +1,045 Talk:Continuous function →1/x is discontinuous at 0?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:4117:41, 12 April 2024 diff hist +338 Template talk:Archives →"This page has archives": Reply Tag: Reply
- 17:3717:37, 12 April 2024 diff hist +292 Template talk:Archives →Proposal to drop archiving params
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- 17:2417:24, 12 April 2024 diff hist +46 m Talk:Continuous function →Please remove the "highschool definition"
- 17:1917:19, 12 April 2024 diff hist +1,657 Talk:Continuous function →1/x is discontinuous at 0?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 13:0713:07, 12 April 2024 diff hist −2 m Ellipsoid →Volume: pull π out of the small fraction
- 13:0613:06, 12 April 2024 diff hist −570 Ellipsoid revert – this markup is broken. But also, this proof is not necessary and is not relevant to most readers in this context. Wikipedia is not a textbook and not every statement needs a belabored proof Tag: Undo
- 13:0013:00, 12 April 2024 diff hist +259 Talk:Continuous function →Please remove the "highschool definition": Reply Tag: Reply
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- 11:5911:59, 12 April 2024 diff hist −15 Apollonius of Perga Undid revision 1218538086 by 2A00:23A8:80D:9D01:C4B2:9753:B36F:245C (talk) rvv current Tag: Undo