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The next step would be to investigate copyright issues for these proofs. Or possibly rewrite them to avoid copyright issues.</small></small>
--[[User:Nickalh50|Nickalh50]] ([[User talk:Nickalh50|talk]]) 19:41, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
== Naming convention? ==
In '''God Created the Integers''', Stephen Hawking refers to what is defined here as the [[Dirichlet function]] as the "characteristic function of the rationals in the reals", and instead calls ''this'' function the "Dirichlet function". Wolfram MathWorld defines both of them under the same banner "Dirichlet function", where the function may take the two values (for rational and irrational) as additional parameters; it calls this function the "modified Dirichlet".
I remain uncertain that either "Thomae's function" or "popcorn function" is a proper canonical name if it is not the most common name in the literature. At the very least it should be mentioned that this function is quite often called "the Dirichlet function", regardless as to its attribution (which is correctly given to Thomae). [[User:TricksterWolf|TricksterWolf]] ([[User talk:TricksterWolf|talk]]) 00:42, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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