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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Good luck with that


The resident teenager pointed out yesterday that the Wikipedia article List of Numbers begins with this stock disclaimer:
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
To quote G.K. Chesterton: that is what one calls a powerful understatement.
You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Yet one more way to waste time on the internet, or crowdsourcing at its finest?
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
(That last bit is from a different Wikipedia article. No need to expand Browning.)
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  1. Edward OckhamJanuary 2, 2012 at 11:38 PM

    I missed that one :(

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  2. skholiastJanuary 3, 2012 at 7:36 AM

    of course, to be fair, the Wikip article is really about "significant" numbers, not every one from infinitesimal to Omega; it's just the incongruity between title and comment that made me smile.

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