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This is a partial bare copy of powers of 2 with different numbers filled in. As is, there's no encyclopedic content, and it fails WP:IINFO. It was previously a redirect to a dab page, but my attempts to restore that have been reverted without explanation. The previous redirect should stay, with or without an intervening delete. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 07:22, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 07:22, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

• Redirect to Power of Three There is nothing here that is not WP:OR or the result of elementary computations. A redirect to 3#List of basic calculations would make sense, but the easy confusion between Power of Three and Power of three requires a disambiguation. That is, redirecting to the dab page Power of Three, and having a link to 3#List of basic calculations in this dab page. D.Lazard (talk) 08:26, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
• Keep. I know about the powers of 3. Please don't redirect and there are no photos in this page. 176.88.98.46 (talk) 08:57, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
• Delete and Redirect to the dab page. Little useful information, none referenced. Very little literature on 3^3^n; 3^2^n is much more common. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 11:06, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, allowing a redirect to Power of Three if people want to do that. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:20, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
• Keep. By the standards of notability for integer sequences, it easily passes: everyone knows it, it is listed as "nice" in OEIS, and it comes up frequently in combinatorial enumeration and other contexts (for instance as the number of faces of all dimensions of the hypercubes); http://oeis.org/A000244 has many more properties. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:13, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

• There's also A025192 for doubled powers of 3. XOR'easter (talk) 00:00, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

• Keep per David Eppstein. Wiki-notability isn't about whether an article is currently stellar, but about whether an article on that topic should exist, and I think this passes. XOR'easter (talk) 23:52, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
• Redirect to Power of Three for now, also consider incubation in draftspace. It is currently a bunch of indiscriminate information, but I can find some promise in it. Nevertheless, it in its current form doesn't qualify (yet) for an article. I have created a draft here at Draft:Power of three. If there is no promise, I would kill it by G7, but draftify for now. tLoM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 13:20, 14 March 2020 (UTC) I did a bunch of research, apparently it has pretty much no interesting properties that can be found. Mathematicians usually look into powers of 2 separately as 2 has a very special status in number theory as an even prime. Powers of 3 are usually considered together with powers of other primes (e.g. powers of 5) in nearly all cases except in some scenarios in which powers of 3 have a unique property (such as being perfect totient numbers. In anuy case, powers of 3 are, quite surprisingly, not notable enough for Misplaced Pages. tLoM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 03:49, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

• Keep - My opinion is the same as XOR'easter. The article is imperfect as is, but it is a notable topic by our standards. Patiodweller (talk) 15:06, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

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