Talk:Unit interval

After I made this stub I found out that there used to be a Unit interval (telecommunications) article that was transwikied a year ago, but I think this has potential for expansion regarding different application specific unit intervals. I also think the (data transmission) subtitle is preferred because unit intervals are relevant to things like USB which are not generally considered telecommunications. —Teknic^T-M-C 13:19, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

References

I found it surprisingly hard to find a reference for this term ...

talk) 19:38, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Such and so is very very important

I have been trying to remove the following bit of unreferenced opinion from the lead of the article:

"These properties are in fact crucial to mathematics (especially compactness and the connectivity conditions)."

However, User:Topology Expert seems to believe that it should stay. Let me outline a few reasons, firmly rooted in policy, that this statement does not belong here.

It expresses an opinion without appropriate attribution. It is possible to avoid doing this by simply
WP:V
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real numbers
. These are far more important than any of the other things under discussion, and yet the lead of the article fails to point that out.
Wikipedia is not a textbook
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--siℓℓy rabbit (talk) 14:10, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have a different issue with the word "crucial". That makes it sound as if the article is considering some other world in which the unit interval is not connected or not compact, and comparing that to our world. But that doesn't really make sense.

I agree, though, that even if "crucial" was replaced by "important", the sentence has the wrong tone. — Carl (

CBM · talk) 14:27, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply

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