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[edit] Mayo High School

The current staff section is not in keeping with wikipedia standards and needs to be pruned down significantly. We do not use wikipedia as a sort of catalog of everyone who works at a given location. Thanks, --Kukini hablame aqui 17:39, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I cleaned it up. Feel invited to go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools to learn more about how school articles are done here. --Kukini hablame aqui 17:42, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Mayo High School

Thanks for your work on the article. I cleaned off the non-encyclopedic information about "doors" as hangout locations etc. This likely belongs on someone's blog or somewhere else. Kukini hablame aqui 20:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Letter frequencies

I've removed the Hemingway vs Faulkner section in Letter frequencies, because, aside from the quote about conventional use of punctuation, it's unreferenced, and may be original research. It's also not really germane to the article; showing that two particular works have different letter frequencies doesn't really say anything about those writers' styles - they may have chosen character or place names which account for the entire discrepancy. You'd need to show similarities across all of an author's works for several authors, and consistent differences between authors, for your analysis to actually show anything. If you are aware of any published literature on the subject, feel free to summarize it and include it in the letter frequencies article under a section headins such as letter frequency variation and authorial style. User:Argyriou (talk) 21:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the ROCH BOX

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[edit] HCP Close packing

Mangledorf, I'm honored that you'd ask but I don't know how to calculate the Z-axis pitch ratio of close-packed spheres. I pondered the issue when making the Fig. 2 ray-tracing and was tempted to plow into the geometry of the issue to get it precisely right. However, anxious to get on with the rest of the solid model and onto the (very) time-consuming task of lighting the scene properly and ray tracing, I simply zoomed quite some depth in my CAD program until I got the Z-axis visually positioned to within about a thousandth of an inch (with Ø 1″ spheres). At the time, it seemed the most expedient way to accomplish the task. You've got me curious now though; please let me know if you figure out the answer. Greg L (my talk) 23:00, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

P.S. You might be interested in The Sphere Packing Problem (204 kB PDF, here), as well as the 703-page Sphere Packing, Lattices and Groups (Google Books preview, here). Be sure to scroll down in the Google Books preview pane; there's lots of information there. Greg L (my talk) 23:25, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Mangledorf, So what is the formula for the z-axis pitch? Greg L (my talk) 21:09, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Mangledorf, you've got the formula correct. Please see my response here. Greg L (my talk) 17:14, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Mangledorf, I took the liberty of adding the formula to the Close packing article. I wanted to get the formula memorialized in its proper place before it got douched somehow. If you check Close packing’s history, you’ll also see I gave you attribution for digging the information out of the texts. I’m not so sure that basic mathematical formulas that were figured out centuries ago need citations. Nevertheless, have at it if you think it best. Greg L (my talk) 02:19, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bluifying years

When do you put brackets around years and when don't you? thanks Mangledorf 20:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Thats a great question since there's obviously a lot of confusion among contributers. Stand-alone years, such as 2007 should never be bracketed. Decades, such as the 1960s should hardly ever be bracketed. Some exceptions might be in an article about the sexual revolution, where linking to a decade that is somewhat related might be useful. On the other hand, full dates, such as May 4, 1978 should be bracketed as shown (like this: [[May 4]], [[1978]]). The reason is that the brackets in this case indicate to the wiki software that it is a complete date. Users can set their preferences for dates. (click on "my preferences" at the top of the page, and then "Date and time" and you'll see several choices.) The software will automatically display full bracketed dates in the user's preferred format. Lone months and lone years have no effect, so there's no reason to bracket them. Thanks for asking.--Appraiser 01:34, 28 July 2007 (UTC)