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::Thanks for the vote of confidence. I too can see a lot of room for improvement in the proposed rewrite, but I figured if I tried to make too many changes at once-- changing the tone AND the content, then it might never get it adopted. Also-- if you have any suggestions for how to get the revision approved, short of going to ArbCom, I'd love to hear it. This whole Opus Dei article has been a somewhat frustrating experience, but I'd hate for all the time I've put into it come to nothing. --[[User:Alecmconroy|Alecmconroy]] 01:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
::Thanks for the vote of confidence. I too can see a lot of room for improvement in the proposed rewrite, but I figured if I tried to make too many changes at once-- changing the tone AND the content, then it might never get it adopted. Also-- if you have any suggestions for how to get the revision approved, short of going to ArbCom, I'd love to hear it. This whole Opus Dei article has been a somewhat frustrating experience, but I'd hate for all the time I've put into it come to nothing. --[[User:Alecmconroy|Alecmconroy]] 01:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

== Harmonic series ==

Hi there Baccyak4H. I edited your contribution to 'harmonic series', stating that the first two series were equal. You are correct in saying that the second series consists of powers of two, but the indices of these powers are not integral for most values of 'k', as I think you intended. Here's why the first two series are equal:

:::<math> \quad\ \sum_{k=1}^\infty 2^{-\lceil \log_2 k \rceil}\,
= \sum_{k=1}^\infty (2^{\lceil \log_2 k \rceil})^{-1}\,
= \sum_{k=1}^\infty k^{-1}\,
= \sum_{k=1}^\infty \frac{1}{k}</math>

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Your edit to the Mandelbrot article

Hello. You added a quote to the Mandelbrot set article with a {{fact}} template. That template is intended to mark existing material in an article for deletion. You see an unverified fact, and mark it, so that the person who added it has some time to come up with an explanation on the talk page, or add a citation on the article page. Since it is for material that will be deleted if its original author cannot support it, it is inappropriate to tag your own edits with it. If you cannot verify your own facts, you should not add them to an article.

Also, Welcome to Wikipedia! - Rainwarrior 18:06, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Opus Dei

Baccyak-- happy to hear you'll be working on the Opus Dei page. If you haven't found it, allow me to point you to my proposed rewrite of the page User:Alecmconroy/Opus Dei. It _might_ be sort of what you're describing-- by and large, it has the same content as the current page, but has been reorganized with an eye to improving the tone of the article. I've been trying to get it to replace the current page (in whole or in part), but haven't met with much success. One of these days, maybe I'll find the time to do a massive comment-solicitation and/or go to Arbitration (assuming of course that the page doesn't get fixed first.

Anyway, I hope you like my version of things and maybe it'll make your life easier. Welcome to the Opus Dei article. --Alecmconroy 18:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alec, thank you for the welcome. After a fast but complete read, I do think your Opus Dei article version is a significant improvement, and your perspective is indeed close to what I was envisioning. Let's take subsequent discussion to the article's main Talk page, and I may chime in on the Talk page of your version as I see fit; I did see a couple of improvement potentials, but I do not want to reinvent the wheel, only perfect it.  ;-) Thanks for your efforts there. Baccyak4H 19:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I too can see a lot of room for improvement in the proposed rewrite, but I figured if I tried to make too many changes at once-- changing the tone AND the content, then it might never get it adopted. Also-- if you have any suggestions for how to get the revision approved, short of going to ArbCom, I'd love to hear it. This whole Opus Dei article has been a somewhat frustrating experience, but I'd hate for all the time I've put into it come to nothing. --Alecmconroy 01:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Harmonic series

Hi there Baccyak4H. I edited your contribution to 'harmonic series', stating that the first two series were equal. You are correct in saying that the second series consists of powers of two, but the indices of these powers are not integral for most values of 'k', as I think you intended. Here's why the first two series are equal: