User talk:Jasondet

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Thank you for the new Kelvin functions article. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:00, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mathematical notation

Hello. Please notice this difference:

In some situations it is convenient to express the statistical significance as 1-α.
In some situations it is convenient to express the statistical significance as 1 − α.

The second version uses a proper minus sign rather than a stubby little hyphen, and puts spaces before and after it, and makes them non-breakable (i.e. no line-break can appear there if you alter your browser window's size or shape). You may want to look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics). Michael Hardy (talk) 00:53, 27 March 2008 (UTC)