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I want to scrutinize the current contents and growth of this template. These are my hypotheses:
Irrational numbers are a meaningful category within the reals (no i, or any other number systems)
"Almost all" reals are irrational (only prominent representatives in the template, most prominent: π)
All roots are irrational, except for respective powers of rationals
Transcendental functions do not preserve rationals
For an overview, consult the article on irrational numbers
Accordingly, I suggest to
remove a good deal of the many scarcely known constants, some roots and ln-s, and to
stop adding new, only scarcely known constants to the template, but rather to the article on irrationals, and to
agree on some ordering of the entries (value, alphabetically, importance, ...).
Especially point #2 allows for broad discussions, and the others are no axioms, of course.
Purgy (
talk) 07:50, 23 January 2019 (UTC)reply
This template is within the scope of WikiProject Numbers, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Numbers on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.NumbersWikipedia:WikiProject NumbersTemplate:WikiProject NumbersNumbers articles
Recent amendments
I want to scrutinize the current contents and growth of this template. These are my hypotheses:
Irrational numbers are a meaningful category within the reals (no i, or any other number systems)
"Almost all" reals are irrational (only prominent representatives in the template, most prominent: π)
All roots are irrational, except for respective powers of rationals
Transcendental functions do not preserve rationals
For an overview, consult the article on irrational numbers
Accordingly, I suggest to
remove a good deal of the many scarcely known constants, some roots and ln-s, and to
stop adding new, only scarcely known constants to the template, but rather to the article on irrationals, and to
agree on some ordering of the entries (value, alphabetically, importance, ...).
Especially point #2 allows for broad discussions, and the others are no axioms, of course.
Purgy (
talk) 07:50, 23 January 2019 (UTC)reply