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,(That last bit is from a different Wikipedia article. No need to expand Browning.)
Or what's a heaven for?
I missed that one :(
ReplyDeleteof 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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