Talk:Hyperbolic spiral

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Hi I've replaced "Reciproke Spiral" by "Reciprocal Spiral" since it is clearly a typo. The only very few references to "Reciproke Spiral" outwith Wikipedia have clearly been copied from it. "Reciprocal Spiral" is to be much more commonly found on the internet. Mikerollem (talk) 13:05, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Second paragraph not displaying properly
I think there must be a mistake in the mathematical specifications as the paragraph is not wrapping properly around the information box. Same results in Chrome and Edge. Sorry I don't know how to amend this -- could someone have a look at it please? It's the paragraph starting "As a plane curve, a hyperbolic spiral ...", and ending "... or as the central projections of helixes."

Thank you DavidCh0 (talk) 18:21, 24 January 2024 (UTC)


 * @DavidCh0 I tried adding a paragraph break in that paragraph. Did that fix your issue? –jacobolus (t) 19:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Formatting problem on Hyperbolic spiral page.png
 * Thank you - it's made some difference but it is still not right. I tried taking "scale factor" out of the and at least it didn't break the word "factor", but I'm outside my comfort zone so don't want to experiment in a way that might affect other views. DavidCh0 (talk) 15:39, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Further experimentation leads me to think that the illustrations need to be sited next to paragraph(s) without mathematical codes (I noticed the same problem further down). Again I'd rather leave it to a more experienced editor... DavidCh0 (talk) 15:52, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * This is a strange rendering bug. I can't reproduce it here in any browser at any viewport width. Maybe you want to start a bug report in the mediawiki bug tracker https://phabricator.wikimedia.org and share information about your browser/etc. –jacobolus (t) 17:06, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I made a sandbox page at Talk:Hyperbolic spiral/sandbox which you are welcome to fiddle with. I switched from ... to :... which I am guessing will fix your issue, but I wonder what the actual problem is. There's clearly some kind of interaction with the display=block used in a paragraph, but I don't get why your browser is treating it quite so wonky – the pattern of putting display=block in a paragraph causes the content following the math tag to be included as a "bare" text node, not inside any top-level block element. –jacobolus (t) 17:12, 25 January 2024 (UTC)