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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by vezzy-fnord on Thursday July 09, 2015 @04:43PM (#9860546)
The Wikipedia pages are then useful later, as a reference, for people who already understand their content.

Which, if I'm not wrong, is exactly the intent of an encyclopedia. It's a reference work.

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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by marcosdumay on Thursday July 09, 2015 @06:28PM (#9861119)
If the only people capable of understanding what you are saying are the people that already know it, saying it is quite useless.

Reference material or not.

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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by AnimalMuppet on Thursday July 09, 2015 @06:51PM (#9861215)
If I (still) knew it, I wouldn't need reference material. But I agree, if I never knew it, then reference material is... not quite useless, but quite useless to me at the moment.
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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by reagency on Thursday July 09, 2015 @11:19PM (#9862118)
A reference is a brief reminder and links to primary sources. We don't hate cars because they aren't boats.
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