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Re: Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers

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> collaboratively edited website Yes, but there are parts of it in terminology awareness gone slightly messy: in 'wikipedia', the educational part is in '-poedia' ("children", hence "learners"); 'wiki-' reflects the concept that the operation on the content must be apt to be quick - which is exactly the direct interpretation that appears in your parent post («a contact form just to edit an article doesn't really live…

Sorry, but the second part, "-pedia" comes from "παιδεία", (all-around) education, not "children".

It's the same :) 'paideia', "education", comes from 'pais', "child" - as I wrote, «"children", hence "learners"» (...«the educational part»).

(Note: as I was checking the spelling of 'paedia', see edit below, the statement of pais→paideia also came out in the search results, from wiktionary.org . I suppose it must be quite uncontroversial.)

I suspect that with that '«all-around»' you refer to the left part of 'encyclopedia' as 'enkyklios paideia', "encompassing education".

Edit: but I see, re-reading the post, that I wrote 'poedia' instead of 'paedia'. (I think I am making at least a typo per post in these days. Maybe when the temperatures will return in the 20's...)

Re: Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers

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I noticed this on the page about infinity: > Are some infinities larger than others? But didn't Cantor prove the answer to that is "yes" back in the 19th century?

AFAIK, he did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_first_set_theory_ar...

The proof of the lemma in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_first_set_theory_ar... doesn't look right to me.

They say "Since the endpoints of (a₁, b₁) are x₁ and x₂", but in the example below a₁ = x₅, b₁ = x₁₂.

Am I missing something?

Re: Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK, he did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_first_set_theory_ar...

The proof of the lemma in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_first_set_theory_ar... doesn't look right to me. They say "Since the endpoints of (a₁, b₁) are x₁ and x₂", but in the example below a₁ = x₅, b₁ = x₁₂. Am I missing something?

Corrected. 'Fast' wiki in action!

Re: Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers

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post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The proof of the lemma in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_first_set_theory_ar... doesn't look right to me. They say "Since the endpoints of (a₁, b₁) are x₁ and x₂", but in the example below a₁ = x₅, b₁ = x₁₂. Am I missing something?

Corrected. 'Fast' wiki in action!

Wait, what's corrected?
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