Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Courtin number


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The result was Delete per WP:SNOW. J.delanoy gabs adds 00:35, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Courtin number

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Non-notable number. Probably a hoax. A Google search shows up only wiki mirror sites. Salih ( talk ) 06:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Possible Hoax. The formula as given does not give a dimensionless number. The units are l/m^5. The talk page gives a name of a researcher "Lenard Kirk" from the "dept of ERG". Said researcher is asking for data to validate this formula. Therefore this is OR. Additionally I can't find any ghits other than obitiaries for Lenard Kirk. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Just as I saved the above, I realised that this article is actually about sexual intercourse. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Is it? I guess I can pull a few vague innuendoes out of it but I'm not too sure. ~ mazca  t 09:24, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete no idea if it's a hoax or not, and don't care. Absolutely no citations = assumption that someone made it up in class one day.  Burden of proof, particularly for empirical information such as mathematics, is on the article writer. -Markeer 11:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, can't find any information on this to suggest it's notable, or indeed real. As Markeer suggests, WP:V really does require sources for this kind of thing and I can't see any. ~ mazca  t 09:24, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - I'm not sure it's about sex, as Beeswaxcandle claims, but the talk page entry looks quite socklike, and the calculation certainly doesn't give a dimensionless result. I think it's a hoax. AlexTiefling (talk) 13:58, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, unverifiable. This seems to be about Taylor-Couette flow. Dimensionless numbers in this situation include the Reynolds number and the Ekman number, but I can't find evidence for the proposed Courtin number. However, I do think it's dimensionless: the unit of $$C = \frac{\tau} $$ is $$ \frac{[N m]}{[s^{-1}]^2 \, [m]^5 \, [kg \, m^{-3}]} = \frac{[kg \, m^2 \, s^{-2}]}{[s^{-2}] \, [m^5] \, [kg \, m^{-3}]} $$ which is unitless. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 11:36, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


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