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Talk:Proof by exhaustion

message: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the concepts seem to be identical -- no reason to have two pages.  I think Proof by exhaustion should be the main page (with Case analysis redirecting to it), as it is (I think) the more commonly used term, and there are more wikipedia pages linking directly to it.  Dbtfz 04:35, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a different opinion. Proof by exhaustion is a mathematical term that refers to a specific technique of mathematical proof. Case analysis is a more general term used in philosophy and logic. I think someone following the case analysis link from, for example, the article on casuistry would be surprised to find themselves in an article about mathematics. OTOH, if the proof by exhaustion article were made more general, then it would no longer match a mathematician's understanding of the term. I think the two articles should remain separate. Gandalf61 11:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the input, Gandalf61.  You're probably right that the articles should remain separate.  I'm going to remove the reference to case analysis in the first sentence of this article, since it seems to equate case analysis with proof by exhaustion.  I'll leave the merge proposal up for a little while longer, though, just in case anyone else wants to chime in.  Dbtfz (talk - contribs) 06:01, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On second thought, I'm just going to remove the merge proposal now.  Dbtfz (talk - contribs) 06:04, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Case analysis]] 

message: The definition given says "...in which the statement to be proved is split into a finite number of cases...". This left me confused me because it seemed that inductive proofs dealt with infinite sets. Then I saw the proof for the modularity of cubes, illustrating exactly what I had thought. Personally I would prefer wording such as "...in which the statement to be proved is split into a finite number of cases or sets of similar cases..." It would have confused me less, and therefore I would expect it to confuse some other readers less. Any remarks? JonRichfield (talk) 15:34, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Comfort me!

message: It only takes one counterexample to disprove a statement. For the statement "all Summer Olympics are held in years divisible by 4", 2020/2021 is that counterexample! Conclusion: a better example is needed. Mathmannix (talk) 14:06, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summer Olympics
Talk:Abstract structure

message: Hello. I am trying to decipher a book by Johnsonbaugh, which at one point mentions the concept of "mathematical system", as being composed of "axioms", "definitions" and "undefined terms". It further mentions that we can "derive theorems within a mathematical system", and then goes on to talk about mathematical proofs.
I would like to know how does that relate to the concept of a formal system, where we have a formal language, axioms, and inference rules... Is a formal system just another kind of "abstract structure"? And is it a "mathematical system" too?
Is a formal system just a mathematical system where some proof techniques were transformed into mere inference rules, becoming a kind of transformational grammar? Is this separation a way to run scared from Gödel, implying that there is more to it than formal systems, and that actual mathematical proofs can't be grasped by mere inference rules?...
Where do I find a nice book defining this thing, more specifically within the context of predicate logic? -- NIC1138 (talk) 04:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mathematical system, inference rules, and references
Talk:1956 United States presidential election

message: Harry Flood Byrd#National politics says "Although Byrd was never a candidate in a presidential election, he nevertheless received 116,248 votes in the 1956 election."  There seems to be no mention here, so one is wrong.--Rumping (talk) 08:57, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harry Flood Byrd 

message: Iowa should have 10 votes not 9 ; MrMingsz (talk) 15:35, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error on Map 

message: One Electoral Vote went to Jones here, isn't the precedent that any third party Candidate with at least 1 Vote or 5% of the Popular Vote is listed in the Infobox or is there another requirement? 76.227.180.214 (talk) 22:12, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Jones' electoral vote was from a faithless elector. The current standard is that any candidate who wins at least one pledged electoral vote or 5% of the popular vote is listed in the infobox. So Jones does not qualify.--JayJasper (talk) 22:18, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Jones Vote 

message: "At the convention (to select the Republican VP), one delegate voted for a fictitious "Joe Smith" for Vice-President to prevent a unanimous vote." - I think this needs some explanation. The wording implies that there was a legal or constitutional requirement to prevent a unanimous vote, but Googling suggests that it was simply a protest against Nixon by a chap called Terry Carpenter (in which case "voted for etc as a protest against Nixon" would be a better way of putting it). -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 14:46, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Joe Smith" 

message: Over the past months, Eisenhower's home state has been changed multiple times. According to the National Archives, his home state was New York. This is a more reliable source than uselectionatlas.org, a third party source which claims his home state was Pennsylvania. I hope this answers any questions about the change. -Mad Mismagius (talk) 20:11, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eisenhower's home state
Talk:Shang Yang

message: Quote from the page:
"The military was also divided into twenty parts". I am wondering what it may refer to. Would it be 20 regiments, divisions or 20 military ranks and peerages? kt2 02:09, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea.  The character used was 等. Pratyeka 05:31, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

text: Would you mind paste the corresponding text here so I would translate it? kt2 21:52, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: 把军功分为二十等 Pratyeka 23:40, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: 等 seems to mean rank, grade or class .. so I think the 'military ranks' translation is accurate.  I'll change the page. Pratyeka 23:58, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

text: True, my understanding of the history of this period leads me to better translate 等 as honours or peerages of achievement on battlefield.
Actually, 商鞅 is written Shang Yang in both Pinyin and Wade Giles romanizations.  He is also known as 公孫鞅 which is written Gongsun Yang in Pinyin and Kung-sun Yang in Wade Giles.
155.97.237.10 04:12, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

text: "Before Shang's arrival in 361 BC, Qin was a backwards state. The vast majority of his reforms were taken from policies instituted elsewhere, such as from Wu Qi of Chu and Han Feizi of Wei; however, Shang's reforms were more thorough and extreme than those of other states."
Shang Yang died in 338 BC, decades before Han Fei (ca. 280 - 233 BC) was born. It was Li Si who was Qin's prime minister when Han Fei lived and wrote.  -- Anthee (talk) 23:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Where has Shang Yang or any of them ever been called a Jurist after the 1920s? Feng Youlan even makes a specific critique against it - in the year 1948.FourLights (talk) 11:32, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jurist?
Talk:Charles the Good

message: What is the intro to this article actually trying to say? Moriori 02:54, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Does it clarify matters to say that the article isn't complete yet? The dramatic events alluded to in the first paragraph will be covered in the article, but I haven't gotten that far in writing it yet. Loren Rosen 05:38, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Wikipedia talk:Non-unique personal name

message: Is there an advantage to this page over :Category:Lists of ambiguous human names? Pkalmar (talk) 23:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just followed a what-links-here to this page.  I think its primary use is to prevent articles tagged with  from appearing as orphaned pages, similar to WP:LDP. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:24, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page still in use?
Talk:Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600)

message: How are the following items pertinent to U.S. history?
#1494-Treaty of Tordesillas 
#1513-Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses isthmus of Panama, sees Pacific Ocean 
#1519-Hernán Cortés defeats Tlaxcala, a small state within the Aztec empire 
#1520s-Spanish begin conquest of Maya civilization 
#1521-Cortes destroys the Aztec empire 
#1524-Giovanni da Verrazano, working for France, explores coastline from present-day North Carolina to Maine 
They might be part of the history of North America or Central America...but of the U.S.? I don't agree. Kingturtle 03:25, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: oops. Kingturtle 03:31, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I've changed it from (Beginnings to 1599) to (Before 1600). Beginnings to 1599 is misleading and inaccurate. Kingturtle 17:49, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  article name change 

message: The United States of America DID NOT EXIST in the 1400s, so talking about its history in that period is nonsensical. The article should be renamed "Timeline of North American pre-history" and hsould incorporate native as well as European events - PocklingtonDan 06:46, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article's title is a misnomer 

message: I know it's not that confirmed, but shouldn't there be an entry about them in this timeline?--216.67.42.81 23:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vikings in N.A.?
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)/Archive 2

message: Brief question: Are the people who insert hanzi into English texts actually getting them to stick?  Possibly it is just my browser (which normally does just fine with Unicode as well as GB and big5), but these characters are not coming through for me. I can see them fine on the Chinese version of Wikipedia, but not on the English version -- no matter what I do to try to "view charset". A few days ago I edited something that was originally written in Chinese and the whole thing got turned into sludge. The same thing will happen on my Mac if I try to paste from a text only GB or big5 file into any program working on OS X. There is contextual (invisible) information that gets copied along if you are pasting from a Unicode-aware program. For instance, copying from the Oasis browser to one of the OS X word processors works perfectly. But copying the same text from a vanilla word processor to a OS X, Unicode capable WP will fail.
Patrick0Moran 02:02, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinese encoding

message: That's got it backwards. If you use the vanilla OS X editor, it will do a "plain text" file, o.k. That is, it looks like text only. But the behavior of that text, when copied and pasted somewhere else, will be different from the behavior when text is copied from, e.g., TeachText, and then pasted into someplace like the Chinese Wikipedia. In that case you will not get Chinese text, whereas if you use two programs that are Unicode responsive you can paste back and forth.  It rather blew my mind when I first saw it because I use Edit II all the time because it does not put hidden formatting stuff into supposedly text-only files.
That, in turn, is another instance of when a "text-only" file is not really "text-only."  I made some software that will count the number of times each Chinese character occurs in a text-only file, and give you a list. When I used my favorite (10 years old and still working fine in OS 9) word processing software called Taste, and I told it to save a file as "text-only" and then counted the characters, the list that I got back inevitably had certain very low-frequency Hanzi that had nothing to do with the text I had typed into Taste. The only thing that could have happened was that formatting stuff was being copied over as "unprintable" characters and then getting interpreted as Chinese and counted... So there is frequently more than meets the eye.
Anyway, my concern is with the Wikipedia handling of Hanzi. I think it may be necessary to put jpg images of characters on the English side. Otherwise at least some people like me who do not always use the newest browsers will be unable to see anything but "comic strip swear words".  (My university standardized on Netscape 4.7 and I have to run it for certain things. Maybe other people have the same kind of problem.)
Patrick0Moran 05:54, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Morphing Hanzi 

message: See Talk:Hakka (linguistics) for proposed naming convention. (That is, Hakka (linguistics) as opposed to Hakka dialect or Hakka Chinese. --Jiang 08:54, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  dialect naming conventions
Talk:Mythology of demons

message: I think this page needs some NPOV, stat. Sam [Spade]
I agree.  What's with the D&D-like references under "Demons come in 4 general types?" JeffC
You're both right. But another issue is: Do we need this article at all? There's a quite good article Demon that treats demons in various kultures, an article Christian demonology and tons of related articles that elaborate the christian standpoint. They are heavily POV, but still contain useful information and now that one. It seems to be largely written from the point of view of a contemporary non- christian "demonologist" who likes demons. Such an article might be good to have, but may be it should be given a better name. (contemporary demonology? occult demonology?)
The whole subject demons seems to need a revision. I'll just start here editing and wikifying a bit, hope someone will help me. User:Lady Tenar
We already have this article...many times over. Why are there so many damn demon articles? What the devil is getting into people? (sorry, couldn't resist.) Anything good here should be moved to demonology, and then this article should become a redirect. RK
I completely agree with regarding this article you and would be happy to do something like this as soon as i have time. Felt uncomfortable about such big changes as a newbe here. But i think christian demonology is worth preserving. other than this one it explains an unique part of the topic, and it's preservation (maybe with some NPOV) may keep the christians from picking on the rest of the topic. The really huge task will be NPOVing and integrating the subpages of christian demonology User:Lady Tenar
I've moved parts of the article into various other demonology-related articles, deleted the redundancy and the spurious RPG-like stuff, and turned mythology of demons into a redirect to demonology. If anyone disagrees, feel free to revert, but considering the poor state of the original article, I doubt anyone will mind. The only part not yet merged into an article is a paragraph currently at talk:grimoire. -Sean Curtin 01:06, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Kiss Me, Kate

message: The title of the musical has a comma in it ("Kiss Me, Kate"). This may or may not have been dropped in the title of the movie, need to verify if it was or not. -_ Someone else 08:30, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  kiss me,kate 

message: ? It's used in the original play too... Twitterpated. (talk) 21:58, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A year and a half later, it's gone. --jpgordon::==( o ) 06:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does "aye, I" have to do with anything? 

message: Should be a little more on the topical MacArthur / Dewey references, and the role the General plays in the plot... AnonMoos (talk) 23:49, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: General / Dewey

message: The West End productions should be listed, but not the Old Vic productions, since Old Vic is not a West End theatre. -- Ssilvers (talk) 07:06, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Cast table
Talk:Thanjavur

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for
—71.163.191.76 (talk) 12:03, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You haven't said what fix you think is needed, but I've moved the coordinates nearer to the center of the settlement. Deor (talk) 17:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ga 

message: (I have "duplicated" this here for when the review is no longer transcluded.) 
What a well-done and thorough article! This passes as a Wikipedia Good Article.  I usually try to offer suggestions for further improvement/development  and am hard-pressed to do so except for two small ones. It would be a nice addition to add an image of a typical part of the city, possibly it's center. Most of the images are for "special" places and items.  Also, you might want to note on the talk page header that the article uses British English  so that there is clarity / no confusion on that.   Congratulations!   Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 02:24, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: This has passed as a Wikipedia Good Article
Talk:Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)

message: What an appallingly incorrect article - probably the worst I've seen in the whole of wikipedia.
This article is bullshit; the roots of the UK hardcore sound lie in the early breakbeat and early rave of 1989 - 1990. The Belgian sound around that time mutated into the 'Belgian Techno' scene with R&S being the key early label; the industrial techno and gabber sounds which began around 1992 followed on from the 1990-1991 early hardcore sound which was effectively a mixture of breakbeat, techno, house, UK bleep / bass music, and early trance influences. It is a direct product of the early house and techno scene. The Continental Europe-Centric nature of this article is pretty damn shocking, since dance music has been a global sound from the beginning. Of course, you can just keep it as 'it all started in the netherlands' and forget about the contribution made from countries such as the UK, USA, Italy, Belgium, even Canada, if you want to keep it as a terrible article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.18.250 (talk) 00:23, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely agree with both of these previous comments Altlondon (talk) 19:12, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

text: Same here, this article needs a lot of work to fix it. As stated above, the 90-92 period, which had a lot of productions from Belgium, UK, Germany, USA, Italy and Netherlands, is very poorly described. Also, an adequate inclusion of this period requires a more broad definition of the genre, because saying that it has a distorted kick and above 160 BPM misleads the reader to think that hardcore techno is just Netherland's Gabber and its derivatives. That is conveniently narrow to that type of hardcore fans and very biased, and  totally out of line for a wikipedia article, as it leaves out early hardcore styles that had a variety of rhythms akin to breakbeat, house/techno, new beat or EBM, being only slightly faster or heavier in the beats Neki9999 (talk) 23:05, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy 

message: Revisiting the unresolved article title situation and the  tags in the article lede, hopefully we can avoid the awkward, current "electronic dance music genre" disambiguator. I'm saving some source material here:
* https://books.google.com/books?id=qIdH2yR41bIC&q=%22hardcore%22
czar 03:18, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natural disambiguation of article title
Talk:Taipa

message: If you can't see the first character of the placename, the Unihan for "Dàng/tam" is here: Traditional & Simplified. --Menchi 14:45, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  &#27705;/&#20988; 

message: Taipa is also an american native name (Miwok) with meaning "spread wings". You can find it on many different websites for babynames.
---(User of german wikipedia : [Merlus] )  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.73.138.250 (talk) 19:56, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taipa as a name
Talk:Wired (magazine)

message: An IP added him as a cofounder, but I can't find any evidence of this that didn't come from Stewart himself.  Is this actually true? Did he make contributions that rise to the level of cofounding? - Richfife (talk) 22:51, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ian Charles Stewart]] 

message: This article needs to better articulate Wired's ideology, especially in its earlier years (the 90s), which is important for understanding its place and influence.  Some resources to start that:
* By David Karpf, Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University . Apparently had read all print issues cover-to-cover.
::* 25 Years of WIRED Predictions: Why the Future Never Arrives: https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-david-karpf-issues-tech-predictions/
::* That old WIRED ideology: https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/that-old-wired-ideology
::* On WIRED magazine's startup phase (1993-1997): https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-wired-magazines-startup-phase
* The Californian Ideology, https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology "The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as WIRED and MONDO 2000 and preached in the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and others."
GretLomborg (talk) 06:50, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure I understand this personally, but I came here to say they should consider discussing the left wing stance of the magazine. Alexandermoir (talk) 00:24, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ideology
Talk:List of explorations

message: This page is blatantly and openly Eurocentric, even going so far as to begin the list with "Some of the most important explorations of Western civilization...". Clearly, this is against Wikipedia's policy of countering systematic bias. Something must be done and I shall take the liberty of being bold and adding some major explorations from beyond the Occidental Cultural Area (such as the voyages of Zhenge He or Tupaq Inka Yupanaqui's discovery of the Galapagos).
I would love to have some of my fellow Wikipedians to collaborate with myself and other Wikipedian comrades to fix this problem.
自教育 (talk) 03:32, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: This Page Does not Represent a Woldwide View

message: Should Mars be included? I know we have robots there, but no humans went there so far. JoãoMolina99 (talk) 13:48, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mars
Talk:Dress Act 1746

message: Is this real? 98 hits on google. May be mythical. Secretlondon 19:11, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)
:looks pretty real to me, appears in print history as well as internet - note actual name of Act in rivised article - dave souza 23:05, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Would it be worth merging and redirecting to Act of Proscription? After all, this wasn't an Act in its own right... Shimgray | talk | 15:46, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Veracity