User talk:68.100.26.175

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Wow. This (and Mean, and Standard Deviation) are horrible. Undecipherable. Tons of variables being used without explanation. The grammar is awful. It reads like it was ripped from one of those 100 page math books from the turn of the 19th century--absolutely useless without the lectures.

I was concerned when I read the words above, since I dislike bad grammar and overly complicated verbiage (see my recent editing of counterexample). But then I looked at the page, and it looks as if any intelligent undergraduate would be able to follow it without much effort. No "variables" are unexplained (and I have often been upset to find Wikipedia articles in which mathematical notation is unexplained; I'm a stickler about such things). But do go ahead and improve it if you can. And this article is quite light on the use of "variables"; I don't understand why you say "tons". (I have not looked at mean and standard deviation today.) Michael Hardy 18:04, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

... and why do you offer specific criticisms on the discussion page on Mary Wollstonecraft when they are of a sort that it would be so easy for you to correct in the article itself rather than on the discussion page? Michael Hardy 18:13, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

... and what, SPECIFICALLY did you have in mind when you wrote that the grammar is awful? I am also well-known to be a stickler about grammar, and I can't figure it out. Would you please identify yourself, by email address, at least, and answer on my own talk page? Michael Hardy 19:33, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)