Talk:List of eponymous laws

message: That's not what eponymous means...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.229.97.194 (talk) 08:58, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, that's true. But per eponym, it is a common nonstandard usage which makes for a snappier article title. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:25, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  snappiness is not encyclopedic, and neither is this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.13.244.125 (talk) 15:49, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page title 

message: I miss Hofstadter's law (after Douglas Hofstadter), usually quoted as "It will always take longer than you think, even when Hofstadter's Law is taken into account" or the like, but I do not know the source (a Google search turns up a lot of quotations, but no source, and the Wikipedia article about Hofstadter does not mention it). Can someone who's better informed please write the entry? --80.126.21.213 15:38, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hofstadter's law 

message: Can these types of "laws" be included too? For example Flynn effect, plus many others? -- œ™ 19:07, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe there should be a List of eponymous effects? Seems reasonable enough. — Hex (❝?!❞) 23:49, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: _____ Effect

message: This seemed like a fairly obvious exclusion, though perhaps because of a Wikipedia rule I am unaware of. I'm not really sure if it should be added under 'Asimov' or 'Three' or 'Laws', but I hope someone can go ahead and add it if it is appropriate. Loonybin0 16:54, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics 

message: I've read through these talk archives and just done a rather large edit applying Hex's requirements for the inclusion of Poe's Law to all the other laws on this list.  I have been generous, in that I've assumed that any law with a cite, of any kind, is not using a cite that is 'self published', as Hex would view it, and that cite is also 'verifiable' and/or 'reliable' as Hex would view it, without actually checking up on whether this is the case.  Unfortunately, despite this generousity, the list is still now a shadow of it's former self, though, for some reason, the Poe's Law that's named for Edgar Allan Poe was hidden, so I've unhidden it.  I expect it will get reverted quite quickly, but, hopefully, this will demonstrate to Hex precisely how ridiculous he's being. 92.16.16.118 (talk) 00:59, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it demonstrates an anonymous coward violating WP:POINT. — Hex (❝?!❞) 03:18, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

text: Specifically, the discussion concerning "Poe's Law" as an addition has broad consensus among registered edotors here.  It is not just one person's "law" -- it is consensus you would have to change. And the consensus is that any added law must be fully cited.  and note further that all recent additions of which I am aware are fully cited.    Vaandalism to make a point is still vandalism, by the way. Thank you most kindly. Collect (talk) 13:27, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I realise this is now academic, due to the Telegraph publishing an article detailing Poe's Law, but I am curious as to how it can be justified that the rules that Hex was supposedly applying only apply to some of this list, but not all of this list, especially considering he was citing rules that are supposed to be universally applied to everything on Wikipedia (according to what he was saying, anyway - this would actually seem to be contradicted by the part about the rules being 'best treated with common sense and the occasional exception' that is on the top of virtually all rule pages on Wikipedia). 92.9.133.105 (talk) 23:24, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

text: Agreed. One cannot apply a standard in one place and eschew it in another without being guilty of hypocrisy. 75.163.187.78 (talk) 22:02, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Applying Hex's Standards 

message: I have edited several of the names of the laws (i.e., "Kerckhoffs's Principle") and added an s to the end of the name. This is to ensure grammatical correctness; please do not revert these edits because they "look funny" to you. I assure you that incorrect grammar "looks funny" to me.69.199.23.90 (talk) 20:58, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, the spelling you quote above contradicts that given throughout the Kerckhoffs' principle article itself. If you feel that it is incorrect, please raise it on the talk page for that article, have it fixed throughout (and the article renamed), and then correct it here. I have returned it to the previous spelling in the time being. — Hex (❝?!❞) 18:35, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar 

message: There is now a reliable secondary source for the origin and purpose of Poe's Law:  .  I propose that we reconsider including it in the article.  Stile4aly (talk) 18:15, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now added it. See also main discussion above.--A bit iffy (talk) 11:25, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You folks are quick!  I came to see if the Telegraph had settled the debate once and for all, and it seems it has :)  - 142.167.91.236 (talk) 18:03, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Two points: (1) The source is not scholarly. (2) The source is reporting a list of internet memes. Using this as an acceptable source would open the floodgates to other internet memes and expressions. Poe's Law looks out of place compared to genuine eponymous laws. One casual mention in the Telegraph does not mean it belongs here. My best guess is that some users from the "Rational Wiki" are pushing a personal agenda here. Avangion (talk) 20:11, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

text:  I will also add that a working paper is not considered a scholarly source. Avangion (talk) 20:16, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poe's Law 

message: *Voidmstr's law
I won't edit the article to include this page about "my" law since that would be rude, but you guys might.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Voidmstr (talk • contribs) 09:10, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not so sure about this law's notability. -- œ™ 03:50, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  VOIDMSTR's LAW 

message: It's stated that this is also known as "Prandtl–Glauert rule". Would this and other mathematical 'rules' qualify for the list? -- œ™ 03:52, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In my view, no. The list was started to collect things known as laws - i.e. that had "law" in the title. I think there are or should be other eponym page to collect such things as Prandtl–Glauert. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:34, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

text: In this same vein, I'm not sure Bayes's Theorem and Pythagoras's Theorem should be included. They're both purely mathematical results, and there are many mathematical results named after people. If we include these, why shouldn't the others be on this page? Cyrapas (talk) 23:37, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Prandtl–Glauert transformation]] 

message: There are a number of laws that come to my mind when reading this entry:
da Vinci's law (after Leonardo da Vinci, actually several laws; like in fluid mechanics, proportion, friction, of free fall (which was wrong))
Galileo's law of free fall
Pythagoras' law: When the tension on a string remains the same but the length L is varied, the period of the vibration is proportional to L (after the guy with the rectangular triangles)
Aristotle's law of the identity
Plato's law on slavery
Markov's law (after A.A. Markov)
Marx' law of profit
Goethe's law
Hilbert's law of the excluded middle (after David Hilbert, mathematician)
Minkowski's law in general relativity
Pepys' law "I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men" after Samuel Pepys
and this list could go on for some time. All of these will get some hits on the web, but not many. Pythagoras with more than 3000 seems to top the list.  Well on second thought actually Galileo's law get 14000 hits. OK, I should not be counting hits, but with the exception of Pepys for which I only found a reference in a newspaper, all of the names are renowned or controversial scholars, so it will be no problem at all, to come up with reliable references. But my question is more, whether more obscure laws should be added - lest the list becomes forbiddingly long.
All of the laws mentioned above seem interesting to me, but some are clearly for the experts. So where is the threshold for adding a law ? Goethe's law at the time caused a serious debate and some scholars still investigate it, but it is not in the mainstream of science, as I would perceive it. Aristotle you simply cannot leave out (my feeling).
On the other hand none of these are on the list. Any particular reason ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.187.61.143 (talk) 19:01, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The list was started, iirc, by listing "law" articles found in wikipedia. The criteria then was, thus, that an article existed. Over time laws which have no articles have been added; in the main, some sort of referenced justification has been given, or else searching after the fact has confirmed the currency of the law. I think the present situation is that if you can make a referenced case for a law, then the law should go in. I don't think length should be a consideration. I've looked at a number of the laws you've listed, and they check out to my satisfaction - as you note, Pepys excepted. I respect that this answer represents a fairly flakey threshold measure; but there you go. I'd advise adding those you feel have widespread currency. --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:25, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed,I see we've tried to constrain the scope by saying at the top of the list "This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person" (my emphasis). Notwithstanding that, if sufficient evidence can be adduced that there is commonplace knowledge of an eponymous law not in this list, I think the law should be added. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:50, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Related to that, I wonder if it counts if a law is by name a law, but isn't an adage exactly. For example, Wheaton's Law. (which does not have it's own page, but does have a section under Wil_Wheaton) Oakwright (talk) 05:10, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How significant should laws be to be mentioned ? 

message: "..used in anatomy to describe how soft tissue models along imposed demands. It is the corollary to Wolff's law." I saw this law was missing from the list and was about to add it, until I read that the full name of the person is unknown. Does it still qualify for addition? -- œ™ 02:09, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: IMO, yes. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:22, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Davis' law]]

message: LeBlanc's Law states: "Later equals never" is used in the context of software development, but may be applied more broadly to other areas.  The law is attributed to Dave LeBlanc.
Here is a link to an article that discusses the topic.  It is mentioned in the book "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" by Robert Cecil Martin.
Gouldsc (talk) 05:32, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to add LeBlanc's law 

message: In engineering projects, often a reason for an event is needed, but sometimes it is hard to find a satisfactory explanation.  For an electrical project, Tom Jenkins recently wrote this about a reason for no voltage being found at certain terminals.  According to Tom, the idea of "electron spin-out" has been around for years, and has been used at many other companies to explain the difficult-to-explain occurances in the electrical world.
"True story: A resident engineer (previously proved to be clueless) was giving BS to one of my guys while he went through normal start-up. At one point he made a big deal out of the lack of voltage on some of our dry contacts. My man told him that there had been an electron spin-out because the electrician had made the wire bends too tight. At the afternoon progress meeting, this engineer used electron spin-out as his excuse for the project being behind schedule!  On the next site trip there was a new resident engineer. 
My engineer first heard about electron spin-out from me. I, in turn, first heard it from another of my employees, who in turn heard of it while he was a manufacturing engineer at the late great American Motors. Before that,[who knows]?"
 
98.81.133.55 (talk) 17:41, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jenkins's Principle of Electron Spin-out 

message: I noticed this addition. If paradoxes are within scope for this list, there are quite a few which can be added. If not, then this and the two others on this list should be removed. Paradoctor (talk) 15:52, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Paradoxes should not be added here; the Paradox article is probably more appropriate.  Reify-tech (talk) 20:45, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are paradoxes in scope? 

message: Bernoulli's principle is not listed here, and I don't see a reason it shouldn't be.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eric3815 (talk • contribs) 08:25, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bernoulli's principle 

message: Can someone tell me the reason why eponymous laws, theorems, effects, etc. are not be formatted in title case? I don't understand the rule for this. To add to the confusion, Godwin's law includes a synonym Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies written in title case. Thanks for the guidance.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.60.123 (talk) 16:16, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct casing of eponymous laws? 

message: Lee Daniel Crocker#Crocker's Rules.
Don't know if this one is applicable or not. -- œ™ 11:07, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crocker's Rules 

message: Not sure about this one. According to an AfD on it a while back this "law" was actually firstly coined by a Wikipedia article. I think adding it may set a bad precedent where we are reinforcing WP:CIRCULAR referencing yet it does still qualify to be listed here does it not? -- œ™ 04:44, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Kryder's law]] 

message: Another one I'm kind've hesitant to add. Apparently there's also another "Reed's rules" at Thomas Brackett Reed#Rules. -- œ™ 02:30, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Reed's rules]] 

message: Wow, just read the archive on the Poe's Law debate.  What a lot of hot air just to rush/delay the inevitable.  I suspect some kooks and trolls were involved in the debate (no smiley).
Now to my point, the word eponymous I first saw on this list page and was quite tickled and have had quite some fun following links and learning great wisdom.  My difficulty is that when I send people to a wiki page for an eponymous law I wish they could also find and enjoy this list, after looking a while it seems that nothing will show up in the footer or source to indicate inclusion in this list.  For me the word eponymous seems to suffer from some sort of aphasic (had to look that word up as well again) block so I have had trouble finding the list again myself.  Just today I thought to use the What links here button so that is me sorted as this list is one of the visited links near the top.  
Now what about other people who do not know that this list exists but are reading an eponymous law page on WikiPedia?
Would it make any sense to mirror this information in a category and make maintaining the list perhaps even easier by having new laws pushed into the listed page section (by editors adding tags when new pages are created) and keeping this part with the descriptions where available as the the page body? - Idyllic press (talk) 21:39, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems it was done before but then got deleted --Hooperbloob (talk) 06:54, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category anyone ? 

message: "... a consequence of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), that explains why certain decay modes appear less frequently than otherwise might be expected. It was independently proposed by Susumu Okubo, George Zweig and Jugoro Iizuka in the 1960s."
Wasn't sure on adding this one. -- œ™ 07:43, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: [[OZI rule]]

message: Another one. Not certain. -- œ™ 05:51, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Loftus's Laws]]

message: Recommend adding a link to von Babo's law, at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Babo%27s_law
68.35.173.107 (talk) 07:25, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recommend adding von Babo's law 

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message: Anything done to simplify anything will raise the matter to a higher lever of complexity.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.144.111.132 (talk) 03:17, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rebner's Law 

message: Should Darwin Awards be included on this list, or is there more suitable list (similar to this one) where Darwin Awards should be listed on?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Testman42 (talk • contribs) 15:33, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Darwin Award 

message: Came across this one but not so sure about it's suitability for addition. Will leave it up to the community. -- œ™ 03:46, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems legit to me, so I added it. We can always remove it if it turns out it wasn't. Paradoctor (talk) 13:41, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Turns out it wasn't. -- œ™ 07:04, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Minchin's Law]] 

message: I noticed that this phenomenon (which seems to be widely discussed nowadays) is not actually part of this list. Is it suitable to be added? NightmareSnake (talk) 18:02, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say no, it is not. -- œ™ 16:55, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mandela Effect]] 

message: Can we add this to See Also? Another Wiki User the 2nd (talk) 15:21, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Add what? the above is a red link to a page that doesn't exist. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:37, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  only because AWU2 used ’ instead of '; I've corrected it. Anyway, I think an appendix of Wikipedia eponymous "laws" (actually guidelines or even just recommendations) should be employed and hatlinked from this article. None of them are likely to be notable enough to be mentioned in a main namespace article. Arlo James Barnes 01:03, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Are there other eponymous "laws" in the Wikipedia namespace, aside from Wikipedia:TenPoundHammer's Law ?  If there are more than a few, then I agree with Arlo James Barnes, and a hatlink or "see also" from this page to some new WP:eponymous_laws page would be reasonable.  Chumpih. (talk) 12:08, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

text: So far, I have found a few such laws by using control-F on CAT:E.50.206.151.146 (talk) 17:27, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:TenPoundHammer's Law]] 

message: An other iffy one. Not sure whether to add. -- œ™ 08:08, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see a problem with it if you can explain in a few words in layman's terms. Why do you consider it iffy? Sundayclose (talk) 16:31, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL, I don't think i'd be able to explain that in any terms understandable to a layman. -- œ™ 08:16, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm sure you can explain it better than I can. I think a brief explanation about what it concerns will be OK. That's the way many entries are described. Sundayclose (talk) 14:47, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

text: The words on the rule appear to have been mostly created by either inactive users or IP addresses around 2008 blame, but there's one active contributor  who may be up to the task of coming up with a pithy, one-line, intelligible form of words to capture the El-Sayed rule. Chumpih. (talk) 01:37, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

text: And thanks to  we now have an entry. Chumpih. (talk) 10:53, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[El-Sayed rule]] 

message: Worth adding? The page is 'start class', perhaps.  Chumpih. (talk) 01:17, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The key word here is eponymous. The law is not named for someone named Finagle. Sundayclose (talk) 01:29, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Makes perfect sense. Chumpih. (talk) 01:44, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

text: That said, I see Finagle gets a mention under Hanlon's law.Chumpih. (talk) 11:32, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Finagle's Law]] 

message: A proposal: we split this list into two sections, with the more common, famous, recognisable laws on the 'A' list, and a 'B' list for the more obscure, domain-specific ones.  Split or keep as one?  Chumpih. (talk) 20:17, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split the list into two - more and less famous? 

message: I notice that about 40% of the entries call out the person whom the law is named for:
> Anderson's rule is used for the construction of energy band diagrams of the heterojunction between two semiconductor materials. Named for R. L. Anderson.
... but more do not:
> Ashby's law of requisite variety, that the number of states in a control mechanism must be greater than or equal to the number of states in the system it controls.
Every single entry references a specific Wikipedia article, so it's easy to find out who each entry is named for (in the unlikely case that "XXXX's Law" isn't named after "XXXX"). Given that this is a pretty long article, I would suggest that (in most cases) the "Named for" tag lines aren't useful and should be removed.
Thoughts? -- Dan Griscom (talk) 01:45, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think removing the names would accomplish very much. Most entries aren't more than one line on most computer screens, so if by "pretty long article" you mean how much we scroll down to get to the bottom, I think that's negligible. I don't think the number of bytes that make up the article is particularly important, since this is not a print encyclopedia. Sometimes when the "named for" person is mentioned, it's useful information to some readers because it gives the reader a choice to read more about the law or more about the person, or both. If I see Boyle's law and want to read about the person instead of the law, I can just click on Robert Boyle and not have to go the the article about the law, find the link to Boyle, and then click it. Some list article are long by their nature. Within reason we should favor making more information easily available over how long the article is. Sundayclose (talk) 02:29, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

text: Agree with .  The convenience of the name outweighs the issue of clutter, IMHO. Chumpih t 09:19, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove references to the people the laws are named after? 

message: Should the list include Gilb's law(s) of computer reliability ?
- Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable
I have seen it about like other computer dystopian principles, but it's not as famous as Brooks law 
I've also seen it as part of a set, as the first of Gilb's laws -- and I'm thinking this page may want to avoid lists
: Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
: Gilb's Laws of Unreliability Corollary : At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
: Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
: Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : The only difference between the fool and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front.
: Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : A system tends to grow in terms of complexity rather than of simplification, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
: Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : Self-checking systems tend to have a complexity in proportion to the inherent unreliability of the system in which they are used.
: Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : The error-detection and correction capabilities of any system will serve as the key to understanding the type of errors which they cannot handle.
: Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
: Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise -- which is impossible.
And:  All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise -- which is impossible
Opinions ?
Cheers Markbassett (talk) 15:50, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: See my comments about Golub's law. Sundayclose (talk) 22:56, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gilb's law(s) ? 

message: Any interest in adding Golub's four laws of computerdom ?
: Fuzzy project objectives are used to avoid the embarassment of estimating the corresponding costs
: A carelessly planned project takes three times loonger to complet than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.
: The effort required to correct course increases geometrically with time
: Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress.
Reportedly in 1974 at Data Management magazine there was a longer list
:Law 1: No major IT projects are ever completed on time, within budget, with the same staff that started it, nor does the project do what it is supposed to do. It :is highly unlikely that yours will be the first.
:Law 2: One of the advantages of fuzzy project objectives is that they let you avoid embarrassment in estimating the corresponding costs.
:Law 3: The effort required to straighten out a project increases geometrically with time.
:Law 4: The objectives understood by the person who sets them up will be seen differently by everyone else.
:Law 5: Only measurable benefits are real. Intangible benefits are not measurable. Thus intangible benefits are not real.
:Law 6: Anyone who can work on a project part-time certainly does not have enough to do at the moment.
:Law 7: The greater the project's technical complexity, the less you need a technician to manage it: find the best manager possible, he will find the technician.
:Law 8: A carelessly planned project will take three times as long. A carefully planned project will only take twice as long.
:Law 9: If there is a risk that something goes wrong, it will go wrong.
:Law 10: When the project is going well, something will go wrong. When things seem to go better, it means that you leave something out.
:Law 11: Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress.
:Law 12: Projects progress rapidly until they are 90 percent complete. Then they remain 90 percent complete forever.:
:Law 13: If project content is allowed to change freely, the rate of change exceeds the rate of progress.
:Law 14: If a user does not believe in the system, he will create a parallel system. Neither system will work very well.
Opinions ?
Cheers Markbassett (talk) 16:05, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: If you open an edit window, you'll see this prominently displayed throughout the article: "A new entry must have a clear Wikilink to an existing article which is notable and which has adequate third-party references, or it will be deleted.". So unless you can write the article according to Wikipedia's standards of notability and reliable sourcing, don't add it to the list. And if you want to write an article, you'll have a tough time finding reliable sources. Googling "Golub's four laws" yields a grand total of one hit, and that's to a personal website, which cannot be used as a reliable source. Sundayclose (talk) 17:49, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golub's laws of computerdom ? 

message: An empirical expression for the burning rate of solid rocket propellant chemical engines. 
Mostly I just want to know who it's named for and why. 2001:56B:9FFE:36F4:0:48:F5C5:CF01 (talk) 16:05, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  St. Robert's / Vieille's Law