Quote from: TexasCadet on November 18, 2013, 02:16:01 PM
This person has way too much free time. http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/digits.html

Amateur:
http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-10t/details.html

Teachers at high schools and Colleges, Librarians all try to steer students away from Wikipedia. In fact, when doing research, Librarians and teachers teach students not to use encyclopedias other than to get an initial understanding of a concept, subject, etc. and turn to more scholarly sources.

In fact, what we teach about Wikipedia is that it can be changed very easily.

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A bad student uses Wiki. A good student uses wiki for the footnotes.

I won't even use it for footnotes.

To me, it's a community bulletin board.

With the way edits are retained, one can see the "conversation" occurring via edits, and then there's the 'talk' section where those edits are debat, er, argued out.

Quote from: a2capt on November 18, 2013, 06:58:49 PM
I won't even use it for footnotes.

To me, it's a community bulletin board.

With the way edits are retained, one can see the "conversation" occurring via edits, and then there's the 'talk' section where those edits are debat, er, argued out.

Using for footnotes, I'll use it to point me to other sources (via the footnotes)...don't think I'd ever cite it as a source for anything...heck, I can make it say the sky is green if I want to!

I've used it as a starting point for research Then on to bigger better info sources from there.. not through their links but by learning terms to use as keywords.