Talk:1318: Actually - Revision history

Sameldacamel34: comment on page update.

2026-02-16T01:21:09Z

comment on page update.

Nitpicking: ... and sig

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... and sig

Nitpicking: oops, forgot linefeed

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oops, forgot linefeed

Nitpicking: Geometric actually-ing

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Geometric actually-ing

162.158.255.52 at 14:34, 23 September 2015

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108.162.219.33 at 19:55, 4 February 2014

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108.162.208.252 at 16:07, 22 January 2014

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108.162.208.252 at 16:00, 22 January 2014

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108.162.208.252 at 15:56, 22 January 2014

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Kynde at 14:04, 22 January 2014

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	'''Actually''', it isn't a {{w\|sphere\|Sphere}}. It's a {{w\|ball}}. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 14:03, 28 November 2021 (UTC)		'''Actually''', it isn't a {{w\|sphere\|Sphere}}. It's a {{w\|ball}}. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 14:03, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
		+	:I think the page is now {{w\|Ball_(mathematics)}} [[User:Sameldacamel34\|Sameldacamel34]] ([[User talk:Sameldacamel34\|talk]]) 01:21, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

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	As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)		As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

−	'''Actually''', it isn't a {{w\|sphere\|Sphere}}. It's a {{w\|ball}}.	+	'''Actually''', it isn't a {{w\|sphere\|Sphere}}. It's a {{w\|ball}}. [[User:Nitpicking\|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking\|talk]]) 14:03, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

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	As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)		As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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	'''Actually''', it isn't a {{w\|sphere\|Sphere}}. It's a {{w\|ball}}.		'''Actually''', it isn't a {{w\|sphere\|Sphere}}. It's a {{w\|ball}}.

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	As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)		As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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 :::Come now. Do you really expect me to do coordinate substitution in my head while strapped to a centrifuge? [[User:Diszy|Diszy]] ([[User talk:Diszy|talk]]) 15:44, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
 ::::No, Mister Diszy, I expect you to die. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.117|108.162.238.117]] 20:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
+:::Why do so many people seem to think the Higgs field has anything to do with gravity? I suppose very indirectly, by contributing to the masses of certain particles, it affects gravity, but no more so than electromagnetism affects gravity; it certainly doesn't cause gravity, or prove that it exists, or anything like that. (If we could detect the graviton--which is a very different particle than the Higgs, and which we so far can't detect--then that would prove that gravity waves exist, which would in turn prove that gravity exists. But it's much easier to detect gravity waves than gravitons, and much easier to detect gravity than gravity waves, so even that would be a silly thing to say.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.52|162.158.255.52]] 14:34, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 I don't see why the explanation assumes the top claim is at the start and end. I think that part of the explanation is a stretch and that the "flat" claim is not meant to be given twice. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.117|108.162.246.117]] 17:38, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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	:Seriously, please stop being an AGN and leave teaching to those '''who''' know. Now excuse me as [https://xkcd.com/386/ I don't feel well....] However, I did have to fix this for all the ESL speakers who have enough problems without language ''incorrections''. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.208.252\|108.162.208.252]] 16:07, 22 January 2014 (UTC)		:Seriously, please stop being an AGN and leave teaching to those '''who''' know. Now excuse me as [https://xkcd.com/386/ I don't feel well....] However, I did have to fix this for all the ESL speakers who have enough problems without language ''incorrections''. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.208.252\|108.162.208.252]] 16:07, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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		+	::Bravo! Very well done! [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.33\|108.162.219.33]] 19:55, 4 February 2014 (UTC)larK

	As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)		As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

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 :To use another example, would you say ''I am smarter than '''him''' is'', rather than the correct ''I am smarter than '''he''' is''?
-:Seriously, please stop being an AGN and leave teaching to those '''who''' know. Now excuse me as [https://xkcd.com/386/ I don't feel well....] However, I did have to fix this for all the ESL speakers who have enough problems without language ''incorrections''.
+:Seriously, please stop being an AGN and leave teaching to those '''who''' know. Now excuse me as [https://xkcd.com/386/ I don't feel well....] However, I did have to fix this for all the ESL speakers who have enough problems without language ''incorrections''. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.208.252|108.162.208.252]] 16:07, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision.  Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first.  I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

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 ''Actually,'' you can win every exchange just by being one level more precise than '''whom'''ever talked last. --[[User:Jesse|Jesse]] ([[User talk:Jesse|talk]]) 05:44, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 : ''Actually,'' "... than '''who'''ever talked last." is correct, which puts you on the receiving end of https://xkcd.com/326/.
-:Here, ''than'' is a conjunction, i.e. it joins two sentences where the second is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/than the basis of comparison]. Each sentence has its own subject and verb+tense. The first has ''You'' and ''can win''. The second has ''whoever'' and ''talked''. '''Who/whoever''' are the subject form and '''whom/whomever''' are the object forms.
+:Here, ''than'' is a conjunction, i.e. it joins two sentences where the second is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/than the basis of comparison]. Each sentence has its own subject and verb+tense. The first has ''You'' and ''can win''. The second has ''whoever'' and ''talked''. '''Who/whoever''' are the subject forms, and '''whom/whomever''' are the object forms.
 :To use another example, would you say ''I am smarter than '''him''' is'', rather than the correct ''I am smarter than '''he''' is''?

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	''Actually,'' you can win every exchange just by being one level more precise than '''whom'''ever talked last. --[[User:Jesse\|Jesse]] ([[User talk:Jesse\|talk]]) 05:44, 19 January 2014 (UTC)		''Actually,'' you can win every exchange just by being one level more precise than '''whom'''ever talked last. --[[User:Jesse\|Jesse]] ([[User talk:Jesse\|talk]]) 05:44, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
		+	: ''Actually,'' "... than '''who'''ever talked last." is correct, which puts you on the receiving end of https://xkcd.com/326/.
		+	:Here, ''than'' is a conjunction, i.e. it joins two sentences where the second is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/than the basis of comparison]. Each sentence has its own subject and verb+tense. The first has ''You'' and ''can win''. The second has ''whoever'' and ''talked''. '''Who/whoever''' are the subject form and '''whom/whomever''' are the object forms.
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		+	:To use another example, would you say ''I am smarter than '''him''' is'', rather than the correct ''I am smarter than '''he''' is''?
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		+	:Seriously, please stop being an AGN and leave teaching to those '''who''' know. Now excuse me as [https://xkcd.com/386/ I don't feel well....] However, I did have to fix this for all the ESL speakers who have enough problems without language ''incorrections''.

	As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)		As a Mathematician, I would just abstract the conversation using Category Theory and try to find an algorithm to be able to abstract any additional precision. Then I would hope that no one found that algorithm first. I still don't know what to call that algorithm though. This is the algorithm now. 16:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)