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Amplify

Hi Nerd271, I have some suggested updates for Amplify, a company in the math and education sphere. As you show interest in editing pages relating to those subjects and are a participant in WikiProject Mathematics, I thought you may like to review my edit request on the Talk page. Happy for your input and assistance, thank you. Mollyatamplify (talk) 13:02, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

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Hyperbolic substitution

Your reversion message of "this version works just fine" to my edit to the hyerbolic substitution section was rather... unhelpful. My initial interpretation was "don't you dare touch this sacrosanct text". After some time licking my wounds from that initial burn (I'm new to editing Wikipedia), I've stepped back and decided that I was reading too much into the rejection, so let's open up a small discussion to hash out which of my changes are deemed acceptable.

My initial "be bold!" attempt at a rewrite combined several different tweaks. Since the content of my version was just as good as the original, I must conclude that the objection was to its style. The most glaring difference in style was my use of a horizontal layout for equation chains, and I suspect that it was this that triggered a "no!" reaction to your sense of aesthetics, and you didn't look any further for any redeeming features of my rewrite.

So, dropping that reformatting change (which I feel is a minor issue that I'm fine with letting go of), here are the changes I was making:

1. Add links to pages documenting the identities being invoked. While the linked pages do not themselves give any better direct insight as to where these identities come from, presumably they reference proper sources. (I have not followed the sources on those pages yet, though I plan to do so as time permits.)
2. Add a small bit of text emphasizing that this is but one example of the use of hyperbolic substitution; this is left implicit in the original, and I feel it could be misleading to someone reading this this section in isolation (e.g., after following a link).
3. Make small adjustments to the equation chains used: break things up so that in each step is only one of: substitution of identity, algebra, and calculus.
4. Rather than stating the identities used an introduction followed by a wall of equations, introduce the identities as prose in the place they are about to be used. It was while trying to make this flow well that I shifted to using the horizontal equation chain format. I'd have to experiment a bit more to see if I can make this work right with vertically stacked equations (my initial attempts came off as too clunky, before I went horizontal), or if I need to abandon the idea altogether.
5. As far as demonstrating hyperbolic substitution goes, the sinh^{-1} result is a good stopping point. I'm not clear on why continuing on to the ln-form derivation is desirable (if I were writing the section from scratch I wouldn't bother mentioning it), but I presume that someone finds it helpful. However, I want to break it out as an addendum to the main derivation, not show it as "the" conclusion.

So, rather than getting into an edit war, I wanted to run this all by you to see if there is anything in this list that is an automatic "no" for you. Engeer (talk) 23:07, 24 May 2024 (UTC)