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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:18, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
Paper with the latest JINR results
[edit]Published 1 July. (280Cn and 288,289Lv.) :) Double sharp (talk) 09:06, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
- (P.S. could you email me a copy?) Double sharp (talk) 09:11, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
- @Double sharp: Thanks for the update! I'll get back to you in a couple of days with the full text – APS journals are some of the few I can't access via TWL or my closest public library. Complex/Rational 13:33, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
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Re: Square root of 10
[edit]Hello CR. In 2019, you voted to delete the unsourced one-paragraph article on the square root of 10. Does the recently created much-expanded version, Square root of 10, address the issues you cited in that discussion? Cheers! BD2412 T 16:07, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
- @BD2412: On a quick read-through, sourcing is much improved compared to the version deleted in 2019, but I'm still not sure that the number is notable, a fact that cannot be overlooked despite the substantial expansion of the article. Much of the new article consists of properties that can be stated for any square root (e.g., continued fractions), and I agree with several points in the AfD that the use of √10 as an approximation of π is not enough for a standalone article and I can't find recently published sources that build a stronger case for notability. The bit about orders of magnitude is interesting, but in my opinion not enough to get it over the line, since it simply follows from the fact that √10 is the geometric mean of 1 and 10; one could make a similar argument for lots of roots or logarithms that otherwise aren't particularly significant. Complex/Rational 21:12, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
- I am a bit surprised, but I think we will have to agree to disagree, then. Perhaps some mathematician will be inspired to publish something specifically on this number in the future. BD2412 T 21:57, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I honestly feel notability is borderline and that the general concerns raised at the 2019 AfD are still valid. But then again, AfDs in 2022 for square root of 6 and square root of 7 both were closed with consensus to keep. Complex/Rational 19:25, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
- Fancy pictures aside, I think the square root of 10 is more mathematically significant than either of those, or for that matter than something like 183 (number). BD2412 T 19:58, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I honestly feel notability is borderline and that the general concerns raised at the 2019 AfD are still valid. But then again, AfDs in 2022 for square root of 6 and square root of 7 both were closed with consensus to keep. Complex/Rational 19:25, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
- I am a bit surprised, but I think we will have to agree to disagree, then. Perhaps some mathematician will be inspired to publish something specifically on this number in the future. BD2412 T 21:57, 21 July 2025 (UTC)