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Sum of parts: d (“differential”) + x; just because it has no space in it, does not means it is not two symbols. x just happens to be the most popular variable name. Keφr 07:45, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
- I would delete both translingual senses. No reason why dx/DX is more dictionary-worthy than five hundred and ten. At 10 should we mention it means two in binary as well? Or sixteen in hexadecimal? Mglovesfun (talk) 18:07, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
- I second the move to delete the Roman-numeral sense. There are literally an infinite number of distinct combinations of Roman numerals, and I would expect that a great many are attested. We shouldn't be including entries for most numbers, even special ones like 65536- whether represented using Roman or Arabic numerals. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:42, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
- What's 65536? Mglovesfun (talk) 21:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
- 2^16, which is the maximum number of possible combinations of 1s and 0s in 2 bytes. It's not as important as it used to be now that characters and address ranges have gotten so much bigger, but I would guess that most programmers who do anything system-related would still recognize it. It was the largest binary "magic number" I could remember to the last digit without checking. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:59, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
- We have quite a lot of Roman numerals, should we group rfd them? I wouldn't even put these in an appendix as the information isn't linguistic. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:24, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
- 2^16, which is the maximum number of possible combinations of 1s and 0s in 2 bytes. It's not as important as it used to be now that characters and address ranges have gotten so much bigger, but I would guess that most programmers who do anything system-related would still recognize it. It was the largest binary "magic number" I could remember to the last digit without checking. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:59, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
- What's 65536? Mglovesfun (talk) 21:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
- I second the move to delete the Roman-numeral sense. There are literally an infinite number of distinct combinations of Roman numerals, and I would expect that a great many are attested. We shouldn't be including entries for most numbers, even special ones like 65536- whether represented using Roman or Arabic numerals. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:42, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
- IMO delete. Since I wanted to delete the kept n-dimensional and three-dimensional (and feel the same about ith; see Talk:ith), I gather that I hold a minority position. Equinox ◑ 22:23, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
- Delete. Also dy, dz, dw, dx₁, dx₂, dx₃, dθ, dφ, dr, etc. (Checking on preview... oh, thank goodness: we don't have any of those (in this sense).)—msh210℠ (talk) 06:36, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
- Delete. It is d + x. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 06:17, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
Deleted. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 00:46, 6 January 2014 (UTC)