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Hi, Will. Thanks for the new article. It's very nice. I did notice one little thing, which I'll fix up in just a minute here – in accordance with Wikipedia style conventions your first sentence really ought to read
In mathematics a regular Hadamard matrix is a Hadamard matrix whose row and column sums are all equal.
In other words, the article's title ought to appear as bold-faced type in the first sentence of the lead paragraph. Not a big deal, but good to know.
Have a great day! DavidCBryant 16:43, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Will. I got your message.
In general, browsers won't break to a new line until they hit a space or a new-line character in the rendered text. So if you wrote the formula as E(H)
with no intervening spaces you shouldn't get a break between the E and the left parenthesis. I'm not sure if your particular issue is browser specific, or not. With which article did you have the problem? Which browser and OS are you using? Or is the problem as simple as breaking at a space?
When I'm coding formulas in HTML I (usually) take some care to think about breaks at spaces. The non-breaking space character (coded ) is useful for this purpose. For instance, there's a difference between coding
''a'' = ''b''
and coding
''a'' = ''b''
These should both render the same way (a = b, and a = b), but the second version should not break across two lines (if your browser's working correctly). Oh – there's also an HTML entity   which stands for a "thin space" and also comes in handy in some circumstances.
Sorry to be so long-winded. I hope I've answered your question. DavidCBryant 11:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Will. figured I'd just abuse your talk page on this. Margi Dykens at the San Diego Natural History Museum just contacted me and said she has the original diagram on her desk. Here's what she wrote me:
I am even more intrigued with finding out the bottom line about the Klauber mathematical mystery. I have his chart that I was telling you about before out on my desk now---we need to get a photo of it (it is large!) and then maybe send a copy to some math person who could tell us what if anything it signifies in regard to Ulam's spiral. I know it has to do with prime numbers for the simple reason that that is what he wrote on it, but otherwise I am in the dark. It does not show any spiral shapes that I are visible though….
I can meet up with her next week and get it digitized. In the meantime, if you want to chat via email (she's not on Wikipedia yet), you can contact me here. Isara (talk) 21:31, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Will, Thanks for your recent edits in Hadamard code, they are very clarifying. Given your expertise in the area, I hope you can help me answer the following questions. It would be really helpful for me so I can clean up these articles (and learn something useful at the same time). I looked into the standard texts, but the answers were either not satisfying or contradicting, so really what I need are better references.
Thanks! ylloh (talk) 03:36, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Re this edit summary: the way to make {{cite journal}} work with {{harvtxt}} is to add the |ref=harv
parameter to the cite journal. But in that case it was better to use {{citation}} as you did: the formatting between cite journal and citation is different — mostly in that cite journal. uses. lots of extra. periods. in the middle of the citation. — and it's better to keep the formatting consistent. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:10, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for fixing the issue on the baudhyana sutras. But I have also noticed that the middle part is still uncited and the paragraphs which have citations cannot be entered. Please kindly fix the issue and make sure that the citations can be entered without issue. Xiwxopswwjdbb (talk) 15:37, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
You said here "grandiose claims about the geometric significance of Si.427 were splashed all over the press, but appear to be greatly exaggerated". Just wanted to see what do scholars think. Beji, S. (2022) A Geometric Formulation and a Series Approach for Estimating π with Remarks on a Sumerian Tablet. Advances in Pure Mathematics, 12, 587-599. https://doi.org/10.4236/apm.2022.1211045 said "We consider Si.427 from a different viewpoint and examine its geometric properties rather than its contents by establishing definite ratios or non-dimensional numbers." 🤷 Infinity Knight (talk) 00:25, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
The IP editor doing the revisions is an LTA account User:Xayahrainie43 -- if you look at the article history you'll see that they've been reverting to the same version since at least September 2021. I'll request page protection. JBL (talk) 18:03, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
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