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Tupper's self-referential formula

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This function suffers from lack of notability. The formula itself does nothing spectacular; only interpreting constants as bitmaps pixel-by-pixel. The constant itself is just a bitmap of the formula encoded as an integer. The formula itself does not output this constant, and thus is roughly as self-referential as the "echo" command is in unix when given the input "echo". I have put to question this article's notability back in November, but there has been little relevant discussion on the corresponding part of the article's talk page. Cachedio (talk) 05:57, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - the article acknowledges that "self-referential" is a misnomer, and describes accurately what the formula does; whether the formula is of dubious value shouldn't have too much bearing on its notability. I've seen it referred to enough for me to think it notable. Elzbenz (talk) 08:51, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Nordic Dragon 10:24, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Nordic Dragon 10:24, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I think that in the end whether something is significant in itself does make a difference. This is plainly not ("bogus" is another description), and everything these days gets a certain amount of attention. So unless there are clear source indicating attention at the "notable" level (whatever that means exactly), I do not think this deserves an article. Imaginatorium (talk) 11:35, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]