Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts: Difference between revisions

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::::We're ''still'' encountering ''new'' page summaries and audio page readers that claim such nonsense as that the mass of the sun about 2 tonnes, specifically 1.9889×1030 kg, and it's our fault, not those devices. For further discussion see [[#Different guidance for non-HTML rendering]] below.

::::[[User:Martin Kealey|Martin Kealey]] ([[User talk:Martin Kealey|talk]]) 08:05, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

::::''“2 does not differ in meaning depending on its position”'' is ... absurd. Of ''course'' a digit's meaning depends on context; 20 is ten times bigger than 2; ¹⁄₂ is twenty-four times smaller than 12; and 5² is about half of 52; O₂ is a molecule, O²⁺ is an ion, ²He is an element, and ₂H is a nuclide. I am always frustrated when searching for, say, a "squared" exponent, that I have to wade through masses of false matches for other kinds of <code>2</code>. For me, using distinct superscript digits would ''improve'' the specificity of searches.

::::I assume you're a sane human who knows all this, so if "meaning the same" isn't the real point, what were you actually trying to say? Does the lack of specificity when searching simply not bother you? [[User:Martin Kealey|Martin Kealey]] ([[User talk:Martin Kealey|talk]]) 03:30, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

== Add exception to allow Unicode super/subscripts in COinS fields in {{tl|cite xxx}} templates? ==