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Mathematics
- Table of bases (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This table of base conversions has been unsourced since its creation in 2003. Most of its bases are themselves non-notable and its digit systems for them unstandardized. Wikipedia is WP:NOT a repository for mathematical tables, which in general have become obsolete since the widespread availability of computers. Some entries in Category:Mathematical tables have prose and references; this one is pure calculation. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:14, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:15, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, it's fine information for a handbook but not an encyclopedia. Gumshoe2 (talk) 18:48, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
- Delete I suppose that it would be possible to have an encyclopedia article about the topic of base-conversion tables. When historically were they introduced? When did people stop bothering to print them? But this is not that. XOR'easter (talk) 04:51, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- Delete. There's absolutely no use for most of the bases, and anybody who uses one of the few useful ones can do the calculations easily enough. Who would ever need to count in base 5? Our future alien overlords? Clarityfiend (talk) 10:34, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
Mathematics proposed deletions
- Turing machine gallery (via WP:PROD on 11 September 2024)