Talk:Surd
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I'm curious. Is this information we really don't have somewhere else already? There aren't really any meaningful links to here. -- Walt Pohl 20:36, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Have not found information on Surds anywhere else. There's more information to be added which I do not know well enough. See the British GCSE webpages about surds (google for it), there's lots of info on how to manipulate them, etc. I don't remember much from my Maths classes about the "proper" methods to work with them, though I can calculate and work with them well myself. (at a pinch I can perhaps add made-up methods and contrived situations to work out expressions with surds).
Is "Surds" a term used outside Britain and Ireland?
Should this page be "surds and indices", indices IS written about elsewhere.
Zoney 20:52, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
This article is a mess as it now stands. Some of the sentences are clumsily written and vague. The word surd appears largely or entirely obsolete. Michael Hardy 23:12, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I agree with Michael, but the question becomes: do we cover this information adequately elsewhere? If not, where do we put it? We do basically cover it on exponentiation, but I it might make sense to have a page just on the rules. (Don't we do that for some other topics? I have a vague memory of it, but I can't find any examples.) -- Walt Pohl 23:22, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I think this page should be made simply into 'Surds', explaining the term and showing how to work with them. (this is reasonably started already) This ISN'T exactly covered in exponentiation, plus there is further information which can be added to Surds.
Meaningful links can be added from exponentiation, square root, cube root, etc.
Zoney 16:05, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
