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to. There are further references to the extended theorem in the "Proof" section of the article. If we now have a better source for the extension, then certainly go ahead and add it to the article (I can only see a preview of the Ross article on JSTOR, so I am not clear whether this covers the extended theorem or not).
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I restored the section headed "Extended Midy's theorem" because it had been excised without considering the rest of the article. As a result, the following section, which starts "Midy's theorem and its extension ...", could have left the casual reader baflled as to what the "extension" part refered
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on the grounds that "this is referred to in other places in article". More precisely, the material derives from an unpublished 2005 article in a pdf at a personal homepage. If this has been published in the meantime by all means we can use this, but otherwise it seems more reasonable to remove
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has been greatly expanded by 300kB this month, by users occupying IP ranges 99.xxx.xxx.xxx and 108.xxx.xxx.xxx who have also been reverting each other. Some of the new additions are not mathematical shapes at all, and a proposal to rename the page exists at
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to claim that he is no longer with us. I am very sorry to hear this, if true — he was my favorite ultrafinitist, by a lot. I corresponded with him briefly at one point while I was in grad school. Can anyone confirm or refute?
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This published article by Ross is certainly a fine source if it proves the relevant generalization of Midy's theorem. Why should the page rely on an unpublished pdf from a homepage rather than a published article by Ross?
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for his biographical details? In particular, is there any support for the assertion that he is of Armenian descent? The article currently has no references that give anything about him personally, as opposed to
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To 78.104.183.88: No. When differentiating with respect to one variable, the others are held constant. So only the exponent of the one variable is brought down and needs to be cancelled out.
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has a good bit of information about him distributed through the document. It was compiled by Dave Rusin. It looks to have good information, but isn't a peer-reviewed document. --
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First formula - shouldn't there be a factorial of the sum of indexes instead of the product of factorials of all indexes?
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http://www.math.princeton.edu/news/home-page/professor-emeritus-edward-nelson-passed-away-september-10th
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linked to from WP templates and modules from HTTP to HTTPS. Please feel free to comment there.
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I see. By the way, there's an article that has been stuck in draftland for a couple of years:
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and you will see many discussions over the years. After doing so, perhaps you will become a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Midy%27s_theorem&oldid=prev&diff=626394495
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I saw that too, it's linked from the Russian-language version. I can't see that being a
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I never heard of this. Is it even something worth including in the FAQ?
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people whose names are embedded in Math Subject Classifcation
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Interesting case. This compilation of information about
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