User talk:PrimeFan
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Thanks for the welcome. I also appreciate the open task suggestions. Unfortunately, they are outside of my interests. But I have a friend who might know something about the second topic you suggested. User:PrimeFan
About 144, it's just a Lord of the Rings reference (which exists in the book for the sole purpose of a bad pun, so I removed it). It was the only thing I immediately thought of that seemed to fit the template I took from one of the other later numbers. I think it would be nicer if all the numbers were based on Three or Five. Kevin Saff 19:43, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi PrimeFan, I've posted a reply on Talk:Sphenic_number -- Ams80 00:13, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I have fixed the Norwegian number pages. Wolfram 15:51, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Excellent! Thank you very much for letting me know. PrimeFan 23:59, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
PrimeFan, about Lysithea being the 12th moon of Jupiter, it's the distance from Jupiter that counts in this case. Giftlite
Hello there, I am looking for some advice and thought maybe you could help, since you seem to have contributed more to Wikipedia than me. I'm glad to bring my two cents to the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Numbers, and since my native language is french, I think it could be helpful to translate number pages in french : the french version is currently quite poor. I wonder, though, if it would be worth starting a project on the french Wikipedia. Could you please tell me what your opinion on this topic is ? Would it be better to start a french sister-project, in order to draw interest, or is it just not worth it, and should I silently translate pages ? Should I rather add a "french translation" section to the english project ? slord 00:56, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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Harshad numbers
I know you say you don't like base-dependent number properties too much, but we could use your help on Harshad numbers. I've entered a stub. Anton Mravcek 21:47, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
- I'm glad to help. PrimeFan 19:10, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
Docuan tables
Very cute! I should have guessed. A name like "PrimeFanial tables" would have been clear. :) Thanks for the history... +sj+ 20:30, 2004 May 16 (UTC)
Numbers in the Slovene Wikipedia
Hi, PrimeFan. Here's another PrimeFan :o) I am also glad that you've noticed how Slovene wikipedia (mainly thanks to Anton Mravcek) has started to edit articles about numbers. What does »Švutzdokuja« table in fact mean, he, he? As I wrote to Anton I have just added arithmetic functions based on Italian table. Anton started with the number 12 - but he is not able to speak Slovene language, since his family was speaking it a long time ago - and now he is trying to learn it some. So these pages reflect this situation. We came to one simple form, from which Anton (and all other of course) may proceed. We will help Anton to learn some language and on the other side we'll have stub articles. Yes, there are still no paragraphs and sentences - but occasionaly we shall fulfil them. So we may say this is somehow the finalized 'simple/spartan' format - still under stub notice. We haven't made a project to this subject. You should consider a lack of users and time, but we shall do our best. If you have other suggestions and advices for this task within Slovene wikipedia, you're very wellcome. I also think this so called »Švutzdokuja« table does not differ so much from English one - it's just simple extension.
As you wrote in your user page something about your interests with numbers I can say something similar. I am fascinated with Möbius function and related terms. (see also talk page (with Mertens conjecture)). I still have to write an article about the most notable Slovene mathematician in the field of number theory Josip Grasselli and of course many other things. Best regards. --XJamRastafire 13:21, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
- Replied at XJamRastafire talk page. PrimeFan 15:47, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
- »Švutzdokuja« sounds terrible in Slovene, but hey it is fine, because you've created it - so it will stay :o) I am glad you like the template. The idea to list individual divisors was of Anton Mravcek, so of course I included it. Encouraged by this talk I've made a project page (sl:Wikipedija:WikiProjekt števila) which I hope will help to make these number pages look well and interesting. I'll try to make it up to date. These tables are named so, but in fact they are just somekind of data boxes like those for biology species and such, right. --XJamRastafire 16:12, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
- Replied at XJamRastafire talk page. PrimeFan 17:00, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
any relation between Mertens record lows and centered figurate numbers? 141.217.84.72 15:36, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I noticed that, but I thought it was just a coincidence. I'm gonna have Mathematica calculate me some more values of the Mertens function to see if I can detect any relation. PrimeFan 22:02, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Just a quick note giving kudos for listing the alphabetical property of Forty. I was just reminded of it and wanted to be sure it was listed; sure enough, it's in the 'pedia. Thanks again from a (some-time) number fan. Radagast 23:55, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)
- You're welcome. PrimeFan 20:23, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, PrimeFan. Please vote in the non-primary ArbComm elections. +sj+ 05:08, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I will read the candidate statements and vote sometime before Friday. PrimeFan 21:40, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Nontotients and noncototients
I was wondering if you might know how to say "nontotient" or "noncototient" in other languages. Even Spanish or German would be helpful. User:XJamRastafire wanted to write an article on nontotients in the Slovene Wikipedia but he wasn't able to because he doesn't know the word. In the number articles for nontotients XJam wrote "Ne obstaja noben takšen cel x, da bi veljala enačba φ(x) = n." Anton Mravcek 17:46, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I added an entry on nontotient to Wiktionary. Hopefully someone will add some translations. PrimeFan 22:08, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
47-gonal: {1, 47, 138, 274, 455, 681, 952, 1268, 1629, 2035, 2486, 2982, 3523, 4109, \ 4740, 5416, 6137, 6903, 7714, 8570, 9471, 10417, 11408, 12444, 13525, 14651, \ 15822, 17038, 18299, 19605, 20956, 22352, 23793, 25279, 26810, 28386, 30007, \ 31673, 33384, 35140, 36941, 38787, 40678, 42614, 44595, 46621, 48692, 50808, \ 52969, 55175, 57426, 59722, 62063, 64449, 66880, 69356, 71877, 74443, 77054, \ 79710, 82411, 85157, 87948, 90784, 93665, 96591, 99562, 102578, 105639, \ 108745, 111896, 115092, 118333, 121619, 124950, 128326, 131747, 135213, \ 138724, 142280, 145881, 149527, 153218, 156954, 160735, 164561, 168432, \ 172348, 176309, 180315, 184366, 188462, 192603, 196789, 201020, 205296, \ 209617, 213983, 218394, 222850}
1729-gonal: {1, 1729, 5184, 10366, 17275, 25911, 36274, 48364, 62181, 77725, 94996, \ 113994, 134719, 157171, 181350, 207256, 234889, 264249, 295336, 328150, \ 362691, 398959, 436954, 476676, 518125, 561301, 606204, 652834, 701191, \ 751275, 803086, 856624, 911889, 968881, 1027600, 1088046, 1150219, 1214119, \ 1279746, 1347100, 1416181, 1486989, 1559524, 1633786, 1709775, 1787491, \ 1866934, 1948104, 2031001, 2115625, 2201976, 2290054, 2379859, 2471391, \ 2564650, 2659636, 2756349, 2854789, 2954956, 3056850, 3160471, 3265819, \ 3372894, 3481696, 3592225, 3704481, 3818464, 3934174, 4051611, 4170775, \ 4291666, 4414284, 4538629, 4664701, 4792500, 4922026, 5053279, 5186259, \ 5320966, 5457400, 5595561, 5735449, 5877064, 6020406, 6165475, 6312271, \ 6460794, 6611044, 6763021, 6916725, 7072156, 7229314, 7388199, 7548811, \ 7711150, 7875216, 8041009, 8208529, 8377776, 8548750}
Nonagonal number
Why did you create the article at Nonagonal number instead of Enneagonal number?? 66.245.3.155 22:56, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Because I thought that was the most common name for it. I didn't even know of the term "enneagonal number" until the day I created that article. PrimeFan 22:12, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new)| talk)
Six million
I'm sticking my nose in where I wasn't invited, and answering a question you left on User talk:Deror avi. The number six million absolutely and without question has historical significance to Israelis and Jews all over the world. Saying "six million" to a Jewish Israeli is practically equivalent to mentioning the holocaust. The book title that came to my mind as support for this is The Seventh Million (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805066608/qid=1103784732/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-4209481-9444815) by Tom Segev. I'm sure there's no lack of other examples. --Woggly 07:00, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- That's fine. Thanks for the references. PrimeFan 20:02, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Problem with RNTFS 7
There is a problem with your sequence RNTFS 7. Running the Mathematica command you provide yields a list of negative numbers, and even after multiplying that list by -1, that list does not match the list you give on your page. The first mismatch occurs at element 17, if I counted correctly. Del arte 20:09, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, I suspected as much. I was having some glitches and couldn't even get Mathematica to start up, so I calculated it by hand. I will fix it today. PrimeFan 20:06, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Tribbles
Is there anything mathematically interesting about 1,771,561? ShutterBugTrekker 17:52, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Not that I know of, off the top of my head. Give me some time to check it out. PrimeFan 22:34, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
New Mathematics Wikiportal
I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.
I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.
Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
Three halves
Hi PrimeFan, I'd appreciate if you would lend your insight to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers#Three halves?. Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 00:15, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Strictly non-palindromic numbers
In 700 (number) you've labelled 739 as a strictly non-palindromic number. What is this?
Is it a number that is not palindromic in any base in which it has at least three digits? It is palindromic in base 738.
Karl Palmen 3 May 2005 (UTC)
- That's right, it is palindromic in base 738. But it's not palindromic in binary, hexadecimal, or any base up to base 737. No integer is completely non-palindromic (n is palindromic in base n - 1 if nothing else), and the name "strictly non-palindromic" might not be the clearest, but "n is not palindromic in any base b with 2 <= b <= n-2" is a little cumbersome. (Both of these terms are taken from Template:OEIS. PrimeFan 17:53, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Years and numerals
Hoi PrimeFan,
Please read and comment on my years and dates proposal, affecting years that are also numerals. It would be nice to get feedback from the whole Numbers WikiProject crew... just going on inbound links alone, a change would be welcome. +sj + 20:45, 12 May 2005 (UTC)