Talk:North Dumpling Island

message: pi is no valid value for money.  perhaps it's pi USD?   --Deelkar 21:03, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's confusing, but according to the wired article, the currency bills are themselves in increments of pi.  So, like I have a 20-dollar bill in my pocket, I could have a pi-dumpling bill.  It's hard to express... --DDG 21:15, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So ... what, there's bills in the value of 3.14 dumplings, 6.28 dumplings, and so on? Nik42 06:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, folks, it's not complicated. Pi is just a number. So if I have a "pi" note, it can buy "pi" value. If I go to the island store, and candies are pi/10 each, then I can be ten candies with that "pi" note. Of course, this all works equally well if we just divide all currency values and prices by pi, which is why this is a whimsical scheme. In an economy with pi-valued notes, the biggest problem is making exact change :). In the real world, countries occasionally reform their currencies after a period of hyper-inflation by lopping off three or more zeros from all prices and currency values. This doesn't change anything in terms of real economic values. It just makes life less confusing and saves a little ink.68.9.201.92 (talk) 17:39, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  currency 

message: Kamen was denied permission to build a wind turbine on the island, so he joked that he was seceding from the United States, and he signed a non-aggression pact with his friend then-President George H. W. Bush.
Come now, this needs a reference. WiccaWeb 03:15, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Come Now 

message: This article could use a map.  Where is this island within the Long Island Sound and proximity to New York state?  I'll add a reqmap tag. N2e (talk) 23:38, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It does have the coordinates listed - you can follow those. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 01:28, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  I clicked on the coordinates and it does not seem to get me to a map with sufficient resolution to tell where NDI is relative to Long Island, or NYC, etc.  Let me know if you know how to get a map with sufficient local detail to see this relationship. N2e (talk) 01:48, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

text: After clicking on the link, the resulting page has links to the Google Map and other maps, where you can zoom in as much as you'd like. I'm describing it in the text. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 02:00, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a map to the infobox so I removed the req map tag. Transpoman (talk) 13:29, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is this Island specifically?  Article needs a map. 

message: North Dumpling Island has a long history. The focus on Dean Kamen is absurd. Who cares about his electricity generating technology? Many people have solar systems on their homes. This article even fails to mention when Kamen purchased the island. 68.9.201.92 (talk) 17:46, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I look forward to reading your additions to the article! Anybody can edit, remember. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 18:47, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

text: Actually, I went ahead and added it myself. You're quite correct that the history was lacking. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 18:54, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kamen-centric article 

message: I have removed the statement that the owner "signed a non-aggression pact with his friend, then-President George H. W. Bush" which has been in the article since its very first unsourced appearance in March 2004. Later, purported sources in The New York Times and Esquire magazine were added, but those make no mention whatsoever of this 'fact'.  --MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:15, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears in this 2010 piece by Today.  I was concerned with circular sourcing (wikipedia -> secondary source -> wikipedia) but it looks like it came from an interview with Kamen and not from Wikipedia.--v/r - TP 19:20, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It also appears in "The Code of the Extraordinary Mind".  Again, it doesn't look like circular sourcing.--v/r - TP 19:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. I'd forgotten this after 5 years!  MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:10, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-aggression pact