Wikipedia talk:Ten-million pool

So can I start a Twenty-million pool now? Or would that be too much? J I P | Talk 07:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I prefer to wait until Wikipedia reaches 2,000,000 articles before we can start such a pool. We have enough pools for now. Georgia guy 21:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Creation of Hundred-million pool
Somebody created Hundred-million pool too early for me to agree it can be voted in; I think it makes more sense until we reach the day Wikipedia reaches 10 million articles before we can have the pool up. Anyone have anything to do?? Georgia guy 18:43, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I have to agree with you here. It is more prudent to take this one step at a time. There is no question that one day, Wikipedia will reach 100 million articles. However, that day is still a long way of. Reaching 10 million articles would even take us a few years as well. -- S iva1979 Talk to me  18:31, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I remember seeing a eleventy-billion pool before.. until it was deleted. SYSS Mouse 01:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * @SYSS Mouse it was readded ;) 88.110.38.249 (talk) 19:58, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

How about...
atan(pi/2) Pool?

What is "atan"?? Pi over 2 is about 1.570796327. Georgia guy 19:32, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Atan (aka atn, aka arctan) is the arctangent function; hence atan(pi/2) (or atan2(0,1) if you prefer) is infinity.
 * Well, it is easy to prove Wikipedia can never become infinitely large:

Wikipedia articles are titled based on Unicode characters and are at most 255 characters long. Therefore, U^255 is the largest possible number of page titles. Furthermore, Wikipedia has restrictions on how articles are titled, making the number of article titles even smaller. Georgia guy 19:45, 29 April 2007 (UTC)


 * @Georgia guy
 * maybe unicode will expand 88.110.38.249 (talk) 20:00, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
 * If I'm right, there are 149816 characters in Unicode, and 149816^255 is a 1320-digit number. (However, I would like to see if anyone can alter the figure based on Wikipedia article title limits (e.g. no # signs.) Georgia guy (talk) 21:16, 1 August 2023 (UTC)