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Re:Socialist millionaire protocol by AMcQuarrie on Monday November 09, 2015 @02:50PM (#10535339)
I find this about basically every Wikipedia article on a math topic. They are very precise - but basically completely useless for learning anything about the topic.
Re:Socialist millionaire protocol by big_youth on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:05PM (#10535430)
Re:Socialist millionaire protocol by 3pt14159 on Monday November 09, 2015 @09:35PM (#10537266)
I once edited a Wikipedia article on an Einstein paper to make it much more clear. It was subsequently reverted. I understand the need for brevity, but the domain experts at Wikipedia revert many seemingly irrelevant edits.

The edit I made was to explain how Einstein made the leap to E=mc^2 by including the step that showed how E=mv^2 for particles of a given velocity. Of course this is well known to every engineer and physicist, but the article on the proof was so hard to follow without it.

Re:Socialist millionaire protocol by peterwwillis on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:01PM (#10535403)
Sometimes there will be a Simple English translation for math articles. Here's an index of articles on Cryptography: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cryptography