Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steiner's calculus problem

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The result was merge‎ to Optimal radix choice. – robertsky (talk) 01:50, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Steiner's calculus problem

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Not notable! A slightly interesting Calculus I problem, with a single MathWorld citation (which has a penchant for neologisms). --Bumpf said this! ^{ooh clicky clicky!} [insert witty meta-text on wiki-sigs here] 19:31, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. --Bumpf said this! ^{ooh clicky clicky!} [insert witty meta-text on wiki-sigs here] 19:31, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to optimal radix choice, the usual context where this optimization problem comes up and is already covered (albeit primarily as an integer optimization problem, but the continuous version is also discussed). I think it probably is covered in enough textbooks that, if we could dig them up, we could justify notability, maybe not under this name, but I think the claim "this function has its maximum at this point" is too small to justify a separate article. The detailed justification for why the answer is what it is does not need to be merged. I will leave a note about this at the talk page of the target. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:14, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as per David Eppstein. Bearian (talk) 21:16, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to optimal radix choice per David Eppstein. He knows what he's doing. Iljhgtn (talk) 06:37, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.