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The result was keep‎. ✗plicit 12:55, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Compared to the standards at Wikipedia:Notability (numbers), info in the article seems somewhat trivial. -- Beland (talk) 11:06, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Beland (talk) 11:06, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Number is significant outside mathematics, especially in U.S. politics as it is the number needed to win the electoral college. KnowledgeIsPower9281 (talk) 01:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. I think being a small example of a harmonic divisor number, the culturally significant number of being a way to describe a 3/4 turn, and the application to US politics make three interesting unrelated properties, enough for WP:NNUM. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:54, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Looks like there's enough to go on for a short page, and we might be able to say more (I found [1], for example). XOR'easter (talk) 03:15, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per above. It's a good place for our core readership to research the United States Electoral College. Bearian (talk) 05:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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