Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FOST function: Difference between revisions

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:<small class="delsort-notice">Note: This debate has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Mathematics|list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions]]. [[User:Shawn in Montreal|Shawn in Montreal]] ([[User talk:Shawn in Montreal|talk]]) 19:17, 4 July 2016 (UTC)</small>

*'''Delete''' - I agree with the nominator that it is probably made up (but I have seen that before where it turned out to be wrong) but for sure it lacks the sources required to meet the notability guideline. [[User:DeVerm|DeVerm]] ([[User talk:DeVerm|talk]]) 19:23, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

*'''Delete''': This function was certainly not made up by the creator of the mrob.com page, which is trying to describe the construction of [[Rayo's number]] to readers with relatively little mathematical background. And the FOST(x) function given there precisely corresponds to the definition of [[Rayo's number]] when the value of x is a googol. I would in fact be suggesting a redirect if I thought that FOST was a standard name for this function - however, there is absolutely no evidence of this and, in fact, I suspect that the source of the mrob.com page, lacking an established name for the function, was simply using an acronym for [[first-order]] [[set theory]] as a temporarily convenient way of referring to it. [[User:PWilkinson|PWilkinson]] ([[User talk:PWilkinson|talk]]) 12:45, 9 July 2016 (UTC)