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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by squeaky-clean on Friday October 07, 2022 @01:35PM (#33124489)
Not only that, 4 paragraphs until the first citation, 16 paragraphs until the next one. All that information might be correct, but there's no easy way to confirm it.

PDEs are a significant enough thing that the article is probably correct. But once you get into more niche math articles, a lot of the writing is incorrect.

Re:School vs. Wikipedia by random314 on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:17PM (#33127534)
Once again, any articles with incorrect content that you can cite?
Re:School vs. Wikipedia by squeaky-clean on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:18PM (#33171962)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-integer_base_of_numerati...

I know enough to know the examples for Base sqrt(2) are not correct, but I don't know enough to write a proper example.

For example if this is true "Base √2 behaves in a very similar way to base 2 as all one has to do to convert a number from binary into base √2 is put a zero digit in between every binary digit"

Then Base(10) 3 aka Base(2) 11 converted to Base(sqrt2) would be 101. But it is actually 1000.000001

> Once again,

This is your first comment to me

Re:School vs. Wikipedia by random314 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:48AM (#33173697)
> Then Base(10) 3 aka Base(2) 11 converted to Base(sqrt2) would be 101. But it is actually 1000.000001

I don't see how. As per the expansion definition in the article 101 = 2+0+1 = 3

1000.000001 = sqrt(8) + epsilon.