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curprev 18:5518:55, 11 July 2023‎ JBW talk contribs‎ 47,873 bytes −9‎ Better (IMO) wording. "A correct value" isn't very meaningful.

curprev 21:3621:36, 12 April 2023‎ DVdm talk contribs‎ m 47,349 bytes −2‎ →‎History: annotated
curprev 21:3521:35, 12 April 2023‎ DVdm talk contribs‎ 47,351 bytes +700‎ Partly undid revision 1149535112 by JBW (talk) I don't agree, and neither does the literature. I Added two sources out of *many* thousands to be found. The Greeks found a number that cannot be written as a ratio of integers, which we call an irrational number.
curprev 20:4620:46, 12 April 2023‎ JBW talk contribs‎ 46,651 bytes +3‎ It is a misunderstanding to attribute the concept of irrational numbers to ancient Greek. Really we should say "irrational ratios", but since probably most readers wouldn't understand what that was supposed to mean, and an explanation would be disproportionate in the context, compromising on "irrational quantities" is perhaps as good as anything.

curprev 10:5910:59, 11 April 2023‎ Schnitzelking talk contribs‎ 46,648 bytes +415‎ →‎History: Updated sentence on square root of 2 and Pythagoreans to reflect uncertainty of Hippasus attribution, added reliable sources. Tag: Visual edit

curprev 07:5307:53, 16 March 2023‎ Citation bot talk contribs‎ 46,233 bytes +17‎ Add: s2cid. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by AManWithNoPlan | #UCB_CommandLine

curprev 09:4009:40, 29 January 2023‎ JBW talk contribs‎ 46,216 bytes −8‎ Denoted by i, sometimes (denoted) by j; alternatively written as i, sometimes (written) as j. There's no good reason for one to be called "denoted" and the other "written".
curprev 02:3002:30, 29 January 2023‎ Eux2010 talk contribs‎ 46,224 bytes +1,231‎ Add small quotes to show Seidenberg's central argument. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
curprev 02:1002:10, 29 January 2023‎ Eux2010 talk contribs‎ 44,993 bytes −3‎ →‎History: fixed date from exact issue number (1961-10) to year (1961) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
curprev 02:0602:06, 29 January 2023‎ Eux2010 talk contribs‎ 44,996 bytes +155‎ added citation to important mathematical paper that summarizes the issue in terms of the dates we can provide for earliest written evidence, as opposed to the dates we cannot really propose for earliest origin and use. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 06:0506:05, 4 December 2022‎ Ohanian talk contribs‎ m 44,841 bytes +11‎ It is not j, just that in Electrical engineering it is written as the symbol j but it is still i the imaginary number