User talk:Somebody9973

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Here you go! Welcome to Wikipedia! Hersfold (t/a/c) 02:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 Welcome to Wikipedia!
Hey there, Somebody9973! I'm glad you decided to register a new account here on Wikipedia. We're always looking for new editors to help improve the project, because believe me, there's always something to be done! Wikipedia often seems very large to newcomers (it did to me, at least), so I've put together this little guide to help you get started. I hope this helps, and as always, happy editing! Hersfold (t/a/c) 02:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Signpost Userbox?

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Does a userbox about the Wikipedia Signpost exist? If not, I might create one.... The Piano Man (talk) 15:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Normal distribution

Apparently in this edit you failed to realize that the e that should be there was already there, since exp(x) means ex, so it's correct either way. But your next edit, which you called a "simplification", was horribly wrong. You changed this:

\frac{1}{\sigma}\varphi\left(\frac{x - \mu}{\sigma}\right)

to this:

\frac{\varphi(x-\mu)}{\sigma^2}

That's nowhere near the same thing. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:31, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The phi function

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Does anyone know where, if anywhere, on Wikipedia the function \varphi (x) is defined?