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14 April 2024

  • 19:2819:28, 14 April 2024 diff hist 0 SicThe article is about an English word of Latin origin. The vowel differs between Latin and English. In Latin, the vowel is long ([sik]); in English, a shorter vowel is used ([sɪk]). The IPA help link needs to align to the actual IPA symbols offered, wrt language - either way.

12 January 2024

4 December 2023

  • 17:4017:40, 4 December 2023 diff hist −280 Diversity jurisdictionRemoving a repetition of the point also made at the end of the first paragraph in this section. That extended point also continues to be reachable through the existing link to the article on "federal common law".

26 November 2023

24 November 2023

  • 11:4011:40, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,566 Bridge scoring1) The page was confusingly silent on the distinction between "game" and "match" and also on Chicago scoring. Chicago is sometimes described as a variant of rubber bridge, but it's scored closer to duplicate bridge. 2) Where I live, and wherever I web search, honor scoring is no longer ever seen in any form of bridge, but ACBL rules still imply its use even for Chicago so I'm covering it as optional in rubber and Chicago.

21 November 2023

2 November 2023

1 September 2023

12 May 2023

  • 08:4208:42, 12 May 2023 diff hist −1 m Theodor VahlenNo edit summary
  • 08:4108:41, 12 May 2023 diff hist +7 Theodor VahlenSource on death place known from: Krammer's letter to Pinl, letter apparently passed on through Kreisel to Bernays. Krammer was transferred to the same internment camp a week after Vahlen's death there. Information published here: https://dml.cz/bitstream/handle/10338.dmlcz/139113/PokrokyMFA_38-1993-5_5.pdf

12 December 2022

  • 18:0418:04, 12 December 2022 diff hist −17 Humanitarian interventionUnsourced verbiage removed. (Chapter 1 of the cited book supports each clause separately, but not the controversial connective between them. Controversial because: The intentions cannot equal the means. Facts cannot equal, or even just imply, any definitions.)

9 May 2022

20 April 2022

  • 21:4021:40, 20 April 2022 diff hist −1 m Plutinofix dangling hyperlink
  • 09:2309:23, 20 April 2022 diff hist +23 Tax horsepowerThe sentence says "in Europe", but the phenomenon seems to be limited to Britain and Ireland at the time. I'm not changing "in Europe" just yet because it's conceivable that the British market alone could have had that wide influence early on.

18 April 2022

  • 17:0817:08, 18 April 2022 diff hist +109 ThyratronEtymology of "thyratron" was completely missing from the "thyratron" page. That was making the provided etymology of another word somewhat confusing.

23 February 2022

  • 17:0517:05, 23 February 2022 diff hist +13 m Orders of magnitude (frequency)The reference to the dec unit (decade ratios) was confusing - the page just uses the decimal number notation, and a generic logarithmic scale, that's all. (And it uses another term "decade" = 10 years which was adding to the confusion.) Tag: Reverted

17 February 2022

15 February 2022

  • 17:5317:53, 15 February 2022 diff hist +18 m Karla (character)Adding necessary detail. The lighter has many subsequent references. Without this added detail they remain incoherent, as it's sometimes called "Smiley's lighter" and other times "Ann's lighter" and its significance stayed unexplained.

14 February 2022

3 February 2022

11 October 2021

31 August 2021

  • 13:4013:40, 31 August 2021 diff hist +5 Palatalization (phonetics)(minor) Not for Czech, at least. Czech orthography employs a loosely related trichotomy (soft;hard;ambiguous/ambivalent) but it's not that strictly aligned to the place or manner of articulation. (I've got an MSc in phonetics from Prague so I think I'd know if there was any additional usage.)

2 August 2021

9 June 2021

11 March 2021

2 March 2021

17 February 2021

24 January 2021

13 January 2021

4 October 2019

13 July 2019

  • 08:1008:10, 13 July 2019 diff hist −258 Bus factorUndoing recent edit. (It appears to me technically wrong and unsalvageable. The remaining bread factory members are expected to share their knowledge while producing bread.)

5 June 2019

  • 10:3710:37, 5 June 2019 diff hist +7 m 65,537→‎Applications
  • 10:3510:35, 5 June 2019 diff hist −331 65,537Most of the language in Applications was massively outdated, or rather, timelessly absurd. The computational cost associated with the RSA public exponent is not the cost to compute the exponent itself, but rather the cost of computing the corresponding power of lots of huge numbers.

23 September 2018

30 August 2018

  • 09:1609:16, 30 August 2018 diff hist +38 Revised Julian calendarI believe that relationship to the Georgian calendar (in recent past and future) is a key defining characteristic of RJC for those readers of the page who may be using the Georgian calendar. The information was already part of this page with more accuracy but that is buried very deep.

9 August 2017

11 July 2017

15 June 2017

  • 09:3409:34, 15 June 2017 diff hist +100 A Mathematician's ApologyEdited a very grand sounding, and historically + scientifically quite inaccurate, unsourced statement into something which is hopefully much closer to reality and still proving the same point.

24 May 2017

2 April 2017

3 December 2016

  • 20:2420:24, 3 December 2016 diff hist +6 Robinson arithmeticRemove a misleading "Since". Q having fewer axioms does not make it weaker. And although Q is incomplete, it does not have much to do with PA - except possibly the fact that even PA is incomplete, but then we don't need to know that Q is strictly weaker.

28 November 2016

8 September 2016

4 July 2016

2 July 2016

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