Talk:Zero one infinity rule

Popular article
According to WikiProject Computer science/Popular pages this article is that project's 8th most popular page with an average of 5608 views per day, yet it's still an orphan! I recall attempting to de-orphan this in the past and getting one incoming link but that seems to have disappeared now.. not sure what happened to it. Anyways, I'm surprised this page is that resistant to de-orphaning, and considering its popularity we editors really should make an effort to get these maintenance tags removed. -- &oelig; &trade; 08:09, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Bad counterexample
The FAT16 counterexample linked by the "Note that violations of this rule of thumb do exist:" is not actually a counterexample; FAT16 is restricted to 65536 files per volume because of the limitations of 16-bit hardware, rather than an arbitrary limit imposed by software. 129.97.125.4 (talk) 20:38, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I removed that example. It made no sense in this context, and anyone with some relevant experience (which isn't me) will be able to come up with a better one if it's needed. TooManyFingers (talk) 21:23, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved to Zero one infinity rule Mike Cline (talk) 00:43, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Zero One Infinity → Zero one infinity –

It's just a rule of thumb (and is in that category on WP). Per WP:CAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. In addition, WP:MOS says that a compound item should not be upper-cased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony  (talk)  11:38, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: I think a better name would be "Zero-one-infinity rule" (since that's the name linked sites prefer). Also note that the abbreviation "ZOI" does not redirect here, despite being mentioned in the article. 212.87.13.73 (talk) 19:30, 18 November 2011 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Zero One Infinity rule is not limited to computer science.

Existence of life elsewhere and the zero, one, infinity rule. (aliens) So where are the Aliens, a documentary by BBC World service available on BBC Sounds refers to the zero, one infinity rule when considering the discovery of life elsewhere from Earth. Chris McKay also wrote in a book 'ALIENS: Science asks if there's anybody out there' the following: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9O_UDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT69&lpg=PT69&dq=chris+mckay+zero+one+infinity&source=bl&ots=wcacT0qo9P&sig=ACfU3U0PzywwCkSYAxcn47eHx4JcDZmuvA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwim0Zzm2srgAhVErHEKHebQD_oQ6AEwBnoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Samccornwell

Removed directory structures example
The example of zero parents of the top-level directory, one top-level directory, and an infinite number of subdirectories, is a poorly contrived example that misapplies and obscures the reasoning behind this concept, rather than making it clearer. It's better to have no example, unless we get a reasonably good one. TooManyFingers (talk) 21:37, 4 June 2024 (UTC)


 * I have since put this one back. My argument was not good, and the example is better than I thought. TooManyFingers (talk) 20:30, 10 June 2024 (UTC)