User contributions for C.M.Sperberg-McQueen

17 July 2024

• 14:5814:58, 17 July 2024 diff hist +1,658 Talk:Plankalkül →Plankalkül and Begriffsschrift: Explain deletion of reference to Begriffsschrift
• 14:3414:34, 17 July 2024 diff hist −58 Plankalkül Remove unsubstantiated claim that Zuse's Plankalkül was influenced by Frege's Begriffsschrift

3 July 2024

• 16:5416:54, 3 July 2024 diff hist +97 Z notation →Award: change description of citation for award (to avoid the misleading impression that OUCL and IBM had developed Z jointly) current

13 August 2023

• 02:1202:12, 13 August 2023 diff hist +110 Quota Borda system Corrected descriptions of Droop quota. (An absolute majority is *not* 50% plus one. It matters a lot when the number of votes is small.)

4 May 2023

• 01:2401:24, 4 May 2023 diff hist +2,320 N Talk:Ancestral relation →R-ancestor: new section Tag: New topic
• 00:5800:58, 4 May 2023 diff hist +8 Ancestral relation Try to avoid saying that Frege defined the term R-ancestor. Frege wrote in German and R-ancestor is not a translation of any term he used. current

13 March 2023

• 00:1600:16, 13 March 2023 diff hist +381 m Talk:Plankalkül →Plankalkül and Begriffsschrift: Note that the claim that Pk was influenced by Bgs is still present elsewhere in the article.

12 March 2023

• 23:3723:37, 12 March 2023 diff hist +40 m Talk:Plankalkül →Plankalkül and Begriffsschrift: link to user pages for Leibniz and Ds13
• 23:3523:35, 12 March 2023 diff hist +1,395 Talk:Plankalkül →Plankalkül and Begriffsschrift: new section Tag: New topic
• 23:1923:19, 12 March 2023 diff hist −42 Plankalkül →Description: Remove the false and unhelpful claim that Plankalkül shares notation with Begriffsschrift.

19 October 2022

• 04:4204:42, 19 October 2022 diff hist +44 m Talk:Hans Werner Schmidt →Um, Weimar was not in West Germany in 1950
• 04:4104:41, 19 October 2022 diff hist +717 Talk:Hans Werner Schmidt →Um, Weimar was not in West Germany in 1950: new section Tag: New topic

7 October 2021

• 15:5015:50, 7 October 2021 diff hist +10 Comparison of the Hare and Droop quotas →General comparison: qualify with "generally" the claim that the Droop quota is smaller than the Hare quota

6 October 2021

• 13:5913:59, 6 October 2021 diff hist +235 Talk:Counting single transferable votes →Meek's method?: Pointed out that alternatives to Meek's method are needed as long as paper ballots are counted
• 13:4813:48, 6 October 2021 diff hist +1 Counting single transferable votes →Hare quota: Correct erroneous claim that the Droop quota is always lower than the Hare quota

5 October 2021

• 04:0404:04, 5 October 2021 diff hist +436 m Talk:Counting single transferable votes →Full ballots and how many winners meet the quota: Addendum on the numeric thresholds.
• 01:0901:09, 5 October 2021 diff hist −56 Counting single transferable votes →Droop quota: Corrected unqualified statement that Droop quota is lower than Hare, deleted confused statement about the fractional part.
• 01:0401:04, 5 October 2021 diff hist +1,963 Talk:Counting single transferable votes Added a section on two factual inaccuracies in the description of the Droop quota.

27 May 2021

• 23:2123:21, 27 May 2021 diff hist +30 m ACL2 Add to category Proof assistants

22 April 2020

• 02:5902:59, 22 April 2020 diff hist +5 m Centroid →History: Correct what look like OCR errors in the paragraph about Bossut.

2 April 2020

• 00:4800:48, 2 April 2020 diff hist +157 m Damerau–Levenshtein distance →Optimal string alignment distance: reformat code to correct indentation inconsistencies and deal better with narrower windows

26 September 2019

• 23:4623:46, 26 September 2019 diff hist 0 m Waterman butterfly projection Correct typo/misspelling of "delineation" as "deliniation", having checked to see that Waterman spells the word conventionally

24 September 2019

• 17:0517:05, 24 September 2019 diff hist −61 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New Mexico →Potential: Carlos Cisneros died 17 September 2019; he is no longer a potential candidate for New Mexico's Third Congressional District

6 September 2019

• 01:4001:40, 6 September 2019 diff hist +410 Rio Arriba County, New Mexico →Politics: If we are going to list the county's legislators, let's list all of them; added Chandler, Lente, Cisneros, and Shendo.

24 June 2019

• 22:5522:55, 24 June 2019 diff hist +134 m Talk:Roger Ascham →Double translation: copy edit
• 21:3121:31, 24 June 2019 diff hist +1,188 Talk:Roger Ascham Ask a question about double translation

24 December 2018

• 19:4319:43, 24 December 2018 diff hist 0 m Ernst Haefliger Correct spelling of "Tiresias" (from "Terasius", perhaps a sounds-like misspelling)

21 August 2018

• 01:0101:01, 21 August 2018 diff hist −50 User:C.M.Sperberg-McQueen Recast. current
• 00:5700:57, 21 August 2018 diff hist −19 User:C.M.Sperberg-McQueen Delete out-of-date affiliation
• 00:4100:41, 21 August 2018 diff hist +295 Ambiguous grammar →Counter-example: Rename section and add introductory motivating text. (Alternatively, I think the section could be deleted.)
• 00:2900:29, 21 August 2018 diff hist +441 m Talk:Ambiguous grammar →Ambiguity: Answered question about ambiguity and yacc.

3 May 2017

• 21:1321:13, 3 May 2017 diff hist +314 2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election →Democratic primary: Move Jeff Apodaca from Potential to Declared, with reference to SF New Mexican of today

9 February 2017

• 03:0503:05, 9 February 2017 diff hist +176 XForms →External links: update links to current draft of XForms 2.0, add link to XPath Expressions module; resequence W3C resources

2 January 2017

• 02:1602:16, 2 January 2017 diff hist −4 Gunnar Jarring Correct English translation of dissertation title (translating Lautlehre as 'sound science' was a valiant effort by someone unfamiliar with standard linguistic terminology, but it means 'phonology')

28 December 2016

• 20:5820:58, 28 December 2016 diff hist +53 Open Source Press Record the fact that Open Source Press has closed. (Sigh.)

24 June 2016

• 00:5400:54, 24 June 2016 diff hist −8 m A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum →Characters: made the gender-neutral description of Pseudolus slightly less clumsy

20 December 2014

• 22:2122:21, 20 December 2014 diff hist +982 Talk:Proprietary file format explain the change I just made, invite corrections.
• 22:1322:13, 20 December 2014 diff hist +624 Proprietary file format Introduce the notion that "open vs proprietary" is not a simple black/white distinction, and prepare for the otherwise bewildering list of "open proprietary" formats further below.

14 September 2014

• 01:4001:40, 14 September 2014 diff hist +1,105 Talk:Markov chain Add a note seconding the view that the initial description of Markov chains is needlessly confusing

15 June 2014

• 15:3115:31, 15 June 2014 diff hist +368 Johannes Sturm Weaken the description of Ascham's endorsement; add a little characterization of the syllabus (from the article in ADB)
• 02:1802:18, 15 June 2014 diff hist +106 Johannes Sturm →Legacy: Mention Sturm's influence on Roger Ascham
• 02:0702:07, 15 June 2014 diff hist +47 m Johannes Sturm →Biography: Tweak a couple of sentences for clarity
• 02:0202:02, 15 June 2014 diff hist +444 Johannes Sturm →Biography: Expand and reword (guided by the article in de.wikipedia.org and ADB) to make the bio comprehensible

4 October 2013

• 01:1601:16, 4 October 2013 diff hist −2,040 Talk:Peano axioms →Zero and one, Peano and his reformulators: Delete this section, I wasn't looking hard enough; question answered.
• 01:1101:11, 4 October 2013 diff hist +884 Talk:Peano axioms →Dedekind's The Nature and Meaning of Numbers: Discuss the meaning of the words Was sollen die Zahlen?
• 00:3700:37, 4 October 2013 diff hist +2,040 Talk:Peano axioms →Zero and one, Peano and his reformulators: new section

2 January 2008

• 15:1415:14, 2 January 2008 diff hist +116 Talk:Fermat's little theorem →First uses
• 15:1315:13, 2 January 2008 diff hist +793 Talk:Fermat's little theorem →First uses: new section

21 December 2007

• 23:1623:16, 21 December 2007 diff hist +196 N User:C.M.Sperberg-McQueen If I'm going to have a username, I guess I should have a user page.
• 23:1223:12, 21 December 2007 diff hist +376 Jon Bosak Mention that the name xml:Father was given to JB in 2000