User:MRaccoon

Hello Wikipedia community,

I am a very newly registered user here on EN.Wikipedia, and still finding out how things work.

I'm originally from the Netherlands, currently living in Germany. English is not my native tongue, but I've read and written English (in preference to any other language) since about age 10 or so. (It has always been evident for me that English is the most useful language, since it gives access to the biggest pool of information.)

By profession, I'm a technical-mathematical software developer and algorithm documentation writer (and my background is MSc Electrical Engineering). My interests include history, philosophy, mathematics, physics, languages, woodworking, hiking. I have a great love of discussion, and am somewhat prone sometimes, if I am not careful, of engaging in arbitrary random discussion just for its own sake. I hope that this inclination to discuss will not distract too much from getting useful things done.

I created a user account on EN.Wikipedia out of a wish to improve a (very) small number of things in the article Montgomery reduction. The motivation behind that wish is that Wikipedia has in the past been of great use to me, and improving this article seemed like a way in which I could partly pay back and do something in return. However, I am not completely sure how much time I will actually have to carry through the small improvements I am envisaging.

I have very limited time, and it is not my goal to take up Wikipedianism as a hobby. My goal here on EN.Wikipedia is limited to making a few small improvements in the Montgomery reduction article, or (if that turns out to work) then conceivably maybe later also a very limited number of other mathematical or technical articles that I come across. that seem unfinished or awkwardly presented, and where my knowledge of mathematics and similar fields could possibly be put to use.

As a completely new user, I obviously have no status or credit whatsoever. Given my limited goal and limited time, it is extremely unlikely that I will ever build up a position of credit or status inside the Wikipedia community. I will clearly always be here only as a low-status user, outside of the community of veteran editors. Or to put it in another way, my presence here is a kind of experiment to find out how much time and effort it costs as a zero-status user to succeed in making small improvements in a specific existing article, that seems to have had only limited attention and seems only half finished, and that is on a completely uncontroversial technical or mathematical topic.

With best regards, --MRaccoon