User contributions for Jacobolus
A user with 31,436 edits. Account created on 9 January 2005.
16 May 2024
- 16:3716:37, 16 May 2024 diff hist +418 Talk:Pythagoras →Fast Tracking a Good Article reassessment?: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 16:3316:33, 16 May 2024 diff hist +2 m Talk:Pythagoras move new topic to the bottom of the page
15 May 2024
- 19:2019:20, 15 May 2024 diff hist +452 Talk:Golden ratio →Link to Wikiquote: Reply Tag: Reply
- 14:2514:25, 15 May 2024 diff hist −2 m Duodecimal Undid revision 1223954858 by 2806:310:2B:C6C3:759B:DC0E:A223:5084 (talk) current Tag: Undo
- 06:0606:06, 15 May 2024 diff hist +330 Talk:Jeremiah Horrocks →Publication date of posthumous edition: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 03:2003:20, 15 May 2024 diff hist +1,325 Talk:Jeremiah Horrocks →Publication date of posthumous edition: Reply Tag: Reply
14 May 2024
- 02:4102:41, 14 May 2024 diff hist +260 Grace Chisholm Young add link to a Google Book scan of her 1895 thesis
13 May 2024
- 20:0920:09, 13 May 2024 diff hist +652 N User:Jacobolus/Versine ←Created page with '* Bond, John David. "The development of trigonometric methods down to the close of the XVth century." Isis 4, no. 2 (1921): 295-323. {{doi|10.1086/358035}} * Cotter, Charles H. "Sines, versines and haversines in nautical astronomy." The Journal of Navigation 27, no. 4 (1974): 536-541. * Shylaja, B. S. "From navigation to star hopping: Forgotten formulae." Resonance 20, no. 4 (2015): 352-359. * Sinnott, Roger W. "Virtues of the Haversine." Sky and telescope...' current
- 18:3718:37, 13 May 2024 diff hist +11 m Talk:Cross-ratio →cross-ratio
- 18:3118:31, 13 May 2024 diff hist +299 Talk:Cross-ratio →cross-ratio: Reply Tag: Reply
- 07:4207:42, 13 May 2024 diff hist −2 m Talk:Instant centre of rotation formatting fix current
- 07:2007:20, 13 May 2024 diff hist −50 Centroid →See also: thin section a bit current
- 07:1607:16, 13 May 2024 diff hist −94 Circumcircle Undid revision 1223606708 by Jlwoodwa (talk) – this does nothing because a floating image gets in the way. while we're at it let's thin the list a bit, and consolidate external links current
- 07:0707:07, 13 May 2024 diff hist −45 m Talk:Incenter american english is already specified on the page. we don't need a banner on the talk page too current
- 07:0507:05, 13 May 2024 diff hist −466 m Talk:Incenter →External links modified: trim some bot boilerplate
- 07:0307:03, 13 May 2024 diff hist +16 m Talk:Incenter →Untitled: let's make up a more meaningful heading than "untitled"
- 07:0207:02, 13 May 2024 diff hist +13 m Talk:De Longchamps point we might as well make up a more meaningful heading than "untitled" current
- 05:3005:30, 13 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Hipparchus Undid revision 1223587910 by 110.145.243.146 (talk) rvv Tag: Undo
- 01:2501:25, 13 May 2024 diff hist +275 Talk:Computer programming →sequence of instructions: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 01:2301:23, 13 May 2024 diff hist +256 Talk:Computer programming →sequence of instructions: Reply Tag: Reply
- 01:1801:18, 13 May 2024 diff hist +278 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology
- 01:1401:14, 13 May 2024 diff hist +324 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology: Reply Tag: Reply
- 01:1201:12, 13 May 2024 diff hist +284 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology: Reply Tag: Reply
12 May 2024
- 21:0421:04, 12 May 2024 diff hist +195 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology: Reply Tag: Reply
- 20:5220:52, 12 May 2024 diff hist +330 Talk:Sine and cosine →Etymology: Reply Tag: Reply
- 20:3820:38, 12 May 2024 diff hist −103 Sine and cosine Undid revision 1223540630 by Altenmann (talk) – I agree, take it to the talk page. if you like, feel free to restore the stable version from yesterday while the topic is under discussion. Tag: Undo
- 20:3520:35, 12 May 2024 diff hist −103 Sine and cosine Undid revision 1223539982 by Altenmann (talk) – no, this phrasing is confusing and backward. we want to put things in historical order greek -> indian synonyms -> transliteration into arabic -> mistranslation into Latin, not shove latin at the front. the www.dictionary.com link also isn't very useful to readers Tags: Manual revert Reverted
- 20:3120:31, 12 May 2024 diff hist +9 Sine and cosine this is not a context where we're using precise linguistics jargon, but if you like we can use some other phrase clearly indicating decent. e.g. "originated in".
- 20:2620:26, 12 May 2024 diff hist +8 Sine and cosine Undid revision 1223526851 by Altenmann (talk) derives is much more precise than "related" which is too vague. there are a few steps in between, as explained in the subsequent sentences Tags: Undo Reverted
- 18:4318:43, 12 May 2024 diff hist −1,629 Sine and cosine revert – this material is already covered below in the "etymology" section Tag: Undo
- 17:3617:36, 12 May 2024 diff hist +306 Talk:Parallel (operator) →Product over sum: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 07:3307:33, 12 May 2024 diff hist +1 Leibniz formula for π Undid revision 1223456043 by 2A0A:EF40:A04:8801:65A1:6B22:BBBC:DB71 (talk) current Tag: Undo
11 May 2024
- 19:0219:02, 11 May 2024 diff hist −128 Limiting case (mathematics) remove useless banners. anyone can see that this article is a stub
- 19:0119:01, 11 May 2024 diff hist −9 m Limiting case (mathematics) maybe clearer to say "whose radius is zero".
10 May 2024
- 17:1417:14, 10 May 2024 diff hist −109 Jeremiah Horrocks we don't need to duplicate the clerke 1891 reference info current
- 16:4716:47, 10 May 2024 diff hist +275 Talk:Newton's method →Systems of equations article draft: Reply Tag: Reply
- 14:4214:42, 10 May 2024 diff hist +23 m Lexell's theorem No edit summary current
- 02:5802:58, 10 May 2024 diff hist +165 Talk:Newton's method →Systems of equations article draft: Reply Tag: Reply
- 02:5502:55, 10 May 2024 diff hist +279 Talk:Newton's method →Systems of equations article draft
- 02:5102:51, 10 May 2024 diff hist +324 Talk:Newton's method →Systems of equations article draft: Reply Tag: Reply
9 May 2024
- 20:0420:04, 9 May 2024 diff hist +636 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative: Reply Tag: Reply
- 19:2219:22, 9 May 2024 diff hist +60 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative
- 19:2019:20, 9 May 2024 diff hist +416 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:0918:09, 9 May 2024 diff hist +124 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative
- 18:0618:06, 9 May 2024 diff hist +18 m Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Eisenstein's number-theoretic paper: reflist
- 18:0518:05, 9 May 2024 diff hist +152 Talk:Lemniscate elliptic functions →Unit lemniscate – alternative: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:3015:30, 9 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Talk:Pythagorean theorem →Trigometric proofs: sp
- 15:3015:30, 9 May 2024 diff hist +274 Talk:Pythagorean theorem →Trigometric proofs
- 15:2615:26, 9 May 2024 diff hist +503 Talk:Pythagorean theorem →Trigometric proofs: Reply Tag: Reply
- 15:2115:21, 9 May 2024 diff hist −101 Sridhara →Works: remove "separated algebra from arithmetic" and "wrote on the practical applications of algebra". these seem too vague, and it's not clear why they are "notable". it would be good to have a more complete accounting of the content of his works here. current