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Mifter (talk) 20:53, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Context setting
editPlease don't start a mathematics article without first telling the non-mathematician reader that mathematics is what it is to be about. "An ordinal is called nondecomposable if...." is not the right way to start a Wikipedia article. The word "ordinal" has meanings in the field of religion and a variety of other subjects besides mathematics. It would probably be a good idea if you looked at some of the math articles to see how they're written. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:29, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- PS: See my edits to additively indecomposable ordinal. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:29, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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