User talk:D.Lazard

Safe Primes, in RSA

Ok, let's try to discuss here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:RSA_(cryptosystem)#Safe_Primes,_in_RSA_Key_Generation No "reliable sources" are needed here. Here you just need to think with your own head. This is math. In any case, I do not owe you anything, and I do not demand anything from you.

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Meaning reverted

According to what does it have to be the common definition? Uni3993 (talk) 10:29, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

To editor Uni3993: This revert has be done according the guideline MOS:OL, which says Unless a term is particularly relevant to the context in the article, the following are usually not linked: Everyday words understood by most readers in context (e.g., education, violence, aircraft, river), [...]. Moreover WP:COMMONSENSE applies also: readers who do not understand the first sentence of Definition, will certainly not be helped by a link to a technical article on semantics. D.Lazard (talk) 10:52, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Tip for verifying content

Hi. If I am not mistaken, you seemed to indicate here that it takes a lot of work to verify some of my edits. If so then here's a tip for quickly verifying the correctness of edits in which no information was added, removed, or changed. I'll use the article Total order as an example.

1. Have the article open and then in a new tab, go the article's revision history and view the version of the article before any edits were made (e.g. this edit from 19:20, 21 November 2021).
2. In both pages, scroll down/up as necessary so that the first sentence of the article (i.e. "In mathematics, a total or linear order is a partial order in") is at the very top of your screen/view area. The goal is to make it so that the location (on your screen) of the sentence "In mathematics, a total or linear order is a partial order in" does not change when you switch tabs.
3. It should now be easy to quickly verify that the information content of the pages are identical because the location of vast majority of the text on your screen will not change much when you switch between tabs. Scroll down by the same amount on each page and then repeat the verification.

By doing this, it typically takes me less than a minute to verify my changes. You can also have the old version of the page open in another window instead of another tab. Best wishes. Mgkrupa 22:11, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

To editor Mgkrupa: If you do, says, 100 changes in a single edit, it may occur that 50 do not change the rendering, 30 fall under MOS:VAR, 10 are improvements, 10 are disimprovements, and the last 10 require to be edited since both the old version and new one are confusing. This makes the verification and the correction of your edits very time consuming. So, please, do not change several sections in a single edit, and do not do make changes of very different nature in the same edit. Said otherwise make edits that can be described with an edit summary of less of 80 characters. Thanks. D.Lazard (talk) 22:59, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Summation in Newton's identities article

Hi D.Lazard, I would still like to change the summation symbol for $e_{2}$ on the Newton's identities article. I think it would be a bit easier to read if it were like the one on the French Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identit%C3%A9s_de_Newton

If you agree, I'll make the change.

Best regards, Kier07 (talk) 15:02, 23 December 2021 (UTC)