Talk:Normalized number

Should this be merged to Scientific notation?
This single-source article is currently incomprehensible unless someone first reads Scientific notation (or previously knew its content), and currently does not say anything that isn't already in the section ; this makes it superfluous, in my opinion. It doesn't seem that useful or even notable as a stand-alone concept.

If nobody has ideas about something significant more to say about this topic, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to just redirect this title to. That section could still grow to 2–3x its current size without growing out of scope for that page.

Doing a literature search, I can't find many pre-Wikipedia sources discussing this topic under this name. Most of the sources popping up are using "normalized number" as a synonym for normal number in discussing (mostly binary) floating-point. –jacobolus (t) 20:04, 4 February 2024 (UTC)