Hello. A few months ago, in a moment of stupidity, I too removed the self-link from fixed point. Then I realized why it's there and put it back. I've put it back again. Michael Hardy 00:03, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi, in VeriSign you've removed the italics on .net and .com, but don't you think they deserve a special typesetting to distinguish them from ordinary words ? I did, and that's why I italicized them, like I would do with (non-assimilated) words in foreign languages. --FvdP 18:21, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Zundark, I'm looking for the name of the theorem "if L is a linearly independent subset of the vectorspace V and G is a generating set of V containing L, then there exists a basis of V which contains L and is contained in G." In German we call it "Basisergänzungssatz", but I get very few Google hits for "basis extension theorem", most of them written by Germans :-) AxelBoldt 12:06, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Zundark, because you revert my changes af the Game of life-Article, i would like you to thaught about the part i wrote, to build in the article. You can test the Structures, they are not nonsense. In german Wikipedia i am the user Arbol01. --217.233.244.23 12:11, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I didn't say that the structures were nonsense. But you wrote "There exist exact three size of LWSS", which is not true (only the first is a LWSS, the others are MWSS and HWSS). Also you labelled them all in German, which is not appropriate in the English Wikipedia. And the rest that you added was not about Conway's Game of Life, so it should not be in the Conway's Game of Life article - and again, the German names are unlikely to be the usual names in English, so you should find out what the usual English names are and use those instead (but in a different article, please). --Zundark 12:50, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hello Zundark, i didn't mean, that you say nonsense, and i don't thought, that oddities mean nonsense. I am german, my english is not so good, and i am do not know the english names of Structures. I proof, the rest is about the Game of life. The most Systems use only 23/3, means two or three neighbars let the "culture" life, three neighbars let born a new "culture". 34/3 35/3 and 3/3 are only other rules in the same game. I don't want you, to let my changes in the article. I want you, to think about the ideas in my changes, and if you could use some of them. Nothing more, nothing less. In www.wikipedia.de i started an own article of game of life, that i think will change in many ways through the time. --217.233.244.23 13:06, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Quaternion: Oops. Thanks for reverting my erroneous "error". That'll teach me to edit what looks like a mistake when I'm tired! dmmaus 11:21, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi, and thanks for the TLD advice. --Zantolak 23:45, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Hi there. Regarding the 12 vs. 13 glyph issue under Arabic Numerals, I feel the "13" version is justified because the opening clause of the statement refers specifically to the modern versions of the system: In a more developed form, the Arabic numeral system also uses a decimal marker (usually a decimal point or a decimal comma) which separates the ones place from the tenths place, and also a symbol for "these digits repeat ad infinitum" (recur). In modern usage, this latter symbol is usually a vinculum. Historically, however, there has been much variation. In this more developed form, the Arabic numeral system can symbolize any rational number using only 12 glyphs. Since the "more developed form" is earlier implied to include a decimal marker, I don't feel that marker should be excluded from the glyph-count. (I suspect that the originally posted 12-count failed to take the "negative sign" into consideration.)
However, I won't change it back yet, because I'm new here and not yet willing to make waves until we've at least discussed the matter. :)
Oh, and sorry about the bold-face -- it was the easiest way I could think of to deliniate the text from the entry.
--Histrion 19:00, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi Zundark. I have a question about astronomical unit. It appears [1] that you cited the value 149,597,870.66 km. Google shows that's a very commonly quoted value, but I can't tell where it originated. Do you have a reference for that? I have seen slightly different values quoted, and it's difficult to tell which one is the "correct" value. -- On a related note, there appear to be at least two definitions of AU (aside from the old semimajor axis defn). One is the radius of a circular orbit with period equal to 1 Gaussian year [2]. The other is the distance traveled by light in 499.005+ s [3]. Which of these, do you suppose, is more appropriate for Wikipedia? Shall we mention both? Thanks for any comments you may have. Wile E. Heresiarch 21:14, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
Odd question guaranteed to be a total non-sequitor to whatever you were just doing: is your user name derived from something called Undark paint? -Litefantastic 01:53, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Z, I think the editor was thinking of functions as a mapping from domain to range (which in a formal sense, of course, functions in x,y are). But I agree it's a little odd and will be jarring for the average reader willing to actually look at math in an article. Too theoretical and abstract an approach for an essentially engineering oriented article, I agree. ww 14:37, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Z, I just nominated JPEG for feature status, and the comments at WP:FAC are calling for images. I noticed the Polish Wikipedia has some (mentioned on Talk:JPEG). Perhaps you work out some good captions for those images in English? -- ke4roh 02:19, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)
Discussion on TLDs moved to Talk:Top-level domain - see my reply there.
Hi, I noticed your proof of the redundancy of the commutativity axiom for vector spaces. I had created a different proof a few months ago (during my Linear Algebra class at UVa), and the two mathematics professors I talked to had never seen anything like it before. I tried doing some searches for it on Google, and bothing ever came up. So I'm wondering, where did your proof come from? Did you create the proof yourself, learn it with the subject, hear it word-of-mouth, read it in a book, etc.? Thanks! (By the way, I didn't like the idea of removing commutativity as an axiom; it would take away the property of vector spaces as being derived from abelian groups. I found an alternate way to reduce the axiom list that keeps commutativity; the standard list is derivable from it.) -- Tim McCormack 01:51, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)
Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...
using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. So far over 90% of people who have responded have done this.
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the ((DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual)) template (or ((MultiLicensePD)) for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace ((DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual)) with ((MultiLicensePD)). If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. It's important to know, even if you choose to do anything so I don't keep asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 14:23, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
In an effort to clean up the main namespace, I've moved your old main namespace userpage to User:Zundark/old, as there's some edit history you might want to keep. Otherwise just delete it. --fvw* 12:30, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)