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Decimal sequences for cryptography

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No secondary sources to establish notability. Although "decimal sequences" are used in at least two published computer science papers, this does not suffice to meet the general notability guidelines. BenKuykendall (talk) 22:37, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

• Keep or Merge as a valid encyclopedic topic with academic coverage, could be merged into the relevant Cryptography section rather than deletion, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 22:49, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Pinging some people from the talk page @Calbaer, R.e.s., Arvindn, and Matt Crypto: would love some input. BenKuykendall (talk) 00:54, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 01:09, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 01:09, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

• Delete: no usable content and no particular hope of this title supporting an article. It seems like the only reason this exists is as a ridiculous plug of a the crankish looking Subhash Kak. The article was formerly a redirect to the Kak article, but an IP editor un-redirected it and two similarly dubious other articles back in 2007, and I see no reason to think the redirect is worth having, either. --JBL (talk) 02:07, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

• Delete: it is based on a single fringe journal article and is nonsense. Tangentially, I'd like to echo JBL's point that the author of said journal article is a crank, which is not at all hinted at on his Wikipedia page. -- Arvindn (talk)