Property talk:P1181

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Thingofme in topic Allow links of a specific (large) number

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numeric value
numerical value of a number, a mathematical constant, or a physical constant
DescriptionNumerical value of a number (Q11563), a mathematical constant (Q186509) or a physical constant (Q173227)
Representsnumeric value (Q10388960), quantity value (Q110597311)
Data typeQuantity
Template parametermany
Domain
According to this template: number (Q11563), physical constant (Q173227)
According to statements in the property:
number (Q11563), physical constant (Q173227), unit of measurement (Q47574), aspect ratio (Q1441762), country population (Q62944360), quantity (Q309314), numerical digit (Q82990), combination (Q202805), unit prefix (Q15132612), numeral (Q63116), Xbox Achievement (Q123348893), numeric writing system (Q140774) or astronomical constant (Q3556678)
When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed valuesreal or integer numbers, positive or negative - real number (Q12916) (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Example1 (Q199) → 1
pi (Q167) → 3.1415926535898
speed of light in vacuum (Q2111) → 299,792,458 metre per second
molar gas constant (Q182333) → 8.3144598 joule per mole kelvin
M82589933 (Q67171811) → not applicable
10^123 (Q18449905) → 1E123
See alsoroute number (P1671), road number (P1824), house number (P670)
Lists
Proposal discussionProposal discussion
Current uses
Total138,695
Main statement138,35899.8% of uses
Qualifier3320.2% of uses
Reference5<0.1% of uses
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Type “number (Q11563), physical constant (Q173227), unit of measurement (Q47574), aspect ratio (Q1441762), country population (Q62944360), quantity (Q309314), numerical digit (Q82990), combination (Q202805), unit prefix (Q15132612), numeral (Q63116), Xbox Achievement (Q123348893), numeric writing system (Q140774), astronomical constant (Q3556678): item must contain property “instance of (P31), subclass of (P279)” with classes “number (Q11563), physical constant (Q173227), unit of measurement (Q47574), aspect ratio (Q1441762), country population (Q62944360), quantity (Q309314), numerical digit (Q82990), combination (Q202805), unit prefix (Q15132612), numeral (Q63116), Xbox Achievement (Q123348893), numeric writing system (Q140774), astronomical constant (Q3556678)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1181#Type Q11563, Q173227, Q47574, Q1441762, Q62944360, Q309314, Q82990, Q202805, Q15132612, Q63116, Q123348893, Q140774, Q3556678, SPARQL
Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1181#Entity types
Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as qualifier (Q54828449): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1181#Scope, SPARQL
 

Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

physical constant edit

This property is intended to be used with mathematical constants. What about physical constants? Can we extend the scope of this property so that it can be used on mathematical and physical cosntants? --Pasleim (talk) 11:46, 5 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

  Support --Tobias1984 (talk) 19:36, 2 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

  Notified participants of WikiProject Physics

  Notified participants of WikiProject Chemistry

  Notified participants of WikiProject Astronomy

  Support of course, no big deal. author  TomT0m / talk page 19:42, 2 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
No opposition Snipre (talk) 20:28, 2 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
  Support There is a real need for this - however, just to be fair it's possible these should be two distinct properties, as a constraint check for being dimensionless (no units) as it has now does seem useful. I know there's some overlap, but just to be fair I'm adding a ping: ArthurPSmith (talk) 22:16, 2 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

  Notified participants of WikiProject Mathematics

@Jura1: - also pinging Jura1 as user responsible for adding the dimension constraint... ArthurPSmith (talk) 00:23, 3 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

  Support --Almondega (talk) 23:22, 2 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
  Support--►Cekli829 18:20, 3 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
So it looks like we don't have any disagreement to make this change. I think I can do the edit - here's what I would do, if anybody wants to review this change before it is made:
  • Change the description to read "numerical value of a number (e.g. 1), a mathematical constant (e.g. pi), or a physical constant (e.g. speed of light)"
  • Also change the Data type to "Quantity" (this has replaced Number anyway)
  • Change the Domain statement as with the description to add physical constant
  • Remove the "Dimensionless quantity" constraint
  • Modify the "Type" constraint to add physical constant (Q173227) as allowed class
does this seem right? ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:17, 3 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
Ok - the above changes have been made - except data type can't be changed (it's embedded in the property definition?) Also I added unit of measurement also as an allowed type as this seems to be frequently used. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:20, 4 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
Can you add an example that involves uncertainties like the Planck constant
  --Physikerwelt (talk) 11:32, 8 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
Ok, I added an example with uncertainty - however it's not showing up quite right on the template page above, it doesn't seem to be pulling in the uncertainty or units. Note that there's also a problem with display of small numbers right now in wikidata (for example the Planck constant example) - see this phabricator request. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:11, 10 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

physiological condition edit

Which property should be used for physiological condition (Q7189713)-like data? See, e.g., ventricular-brain ratio (Q17141282). Is this out of scope for numeric value (P1181)? — Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 02:59, 18 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Unique value constraint edit

I find it strange that we put down a "unique value constraint" on this property. As the constraint violation report shows, there are a lot of real numbers which are the values of different physical or mathematical constants in different contexts. Should we remove the constraint? Deryck Chan (talk) 17:26, 23 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

But we see all "violations" (actually, exceptions) and can fix any wrong non-uniqueness (there were such cases some time ago). Let it stay. --Infovarius (talk) 10:46, 22 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Maximum value edit

Apparently, there is a maximum value around 9E124, see Help:Statements#Quantitative_values.

For a way to indicate that the value is known, but exceeds it, see Q28753965#P1181 using value known, but too large for datatype (Q54767019).
--- Jura 19:28, 5 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

also for unit prefixes edit

Looks like we're also using this for unit prefixes (Q15132612) like kilo (Q107428). Makes sense. Not sure if the description needs updating to reflect this, or if an example would be useful. I updated the constraint. —Scs (talk) 12:38, 9 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Numerical value of convergent series edit

An instance of convergent series (Q1211057) should be allowed to have a numeric value (P1181), which is the number to which it converges. Helder 13:06, 7 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Allow links of a specific (large) number edit

Maybe it should allow links of a specific (large) number like the Largest known prime number item. Thingofme (talk) 15:46, 18 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

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