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Do we really need time limit on editing comments [duplicate]
I find time limit on editing comments annoying and doubt that it is needed at all. My problem is typos that I can't fix if I noticed them too late. If my comment is not answered I post the corrected ...
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Do all questions need to show work?
Check this question with over a hundred upvotes: If squaring a number means multiplying that number with itself then shouldn't taking square root of a number mean to divide a number by itself?
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How to ask a good proof-verification question?
Firstly, I want to thank the people who have commented on or reviewed my attempted proofs over the years. I'm not a student, so that kind of feedback is invaluable.
I've gotten a little bit better at ...
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The [mobile-web] tag info is outdated
The mobile-web tag info
For questions about the mobile versions of Stack Exchange sites. You can access the mobile version of a site by clicking the "mobile" link in the page footer.
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Text in “Closed“ box goes beyond right boundary (on mobile devices)
On mobile devices, the text in a “Closed” box may extend beyond the right boundary of the box.
Up to now, I observed this only on the Mathematics Meta site, and only for questions which are closed ...
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Visual effect of formulas in mac
As can be seen, some parts of the formulas overlap with each other in mac. So the visual effect is not really satisfying. How can I solve this problem?
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Can we have a section on the right side of the site for showing ongoing contests and linking to the problem sets?
Recently many questions consisting of the problems from the application for Ross Mathematics Program have appeared at MSE. I did not know of it and came to know of it when a user unintentionally ...
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Is my queueing theory question completely misunderstood? [duplicate]
My question on queuing theory has been closed as "not about mathematics". It references a paper about ChatGPT, but that is completely incidental to the question.
The question and associated ...
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Why was my question on Ontario lotteries " flagged as spam or offensive content", closed, deleted? [duplicate]
I asked https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4660623 for myself as a private person, out of curiosity. I am not affiliated or backed in any way by any lottery company.
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Fractional-Differential-Equation tag [duplicate]
Fractional Differential Equations are becoming very important. I propose to the community to consider it a tag, and also its abbreviation FDE.
To give a flavor of its importance I'm including an ...
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9to5Science scraper site is plagiarizing our content
While testing AI tools on DuckDuckGo (DDG), I noticed that the scraper site 9to5Science.com is plagiarizing much of our content (along with other SE science sites). For example a DDG search on "...
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Addressing cheating on tests
Not often, but often enough, questions such as this one appear on the site: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4658795/im-in-quiz-i-need-asap-help
This question is either a blatant troll, or it ...
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A hide/show feature
There is a question here on math.meta.stackexchange requesting hide/show features for posts. The person was then asked to ask the same question on the meta.stackexchange, where their request was ...
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bad break in bounty banner
The bounty banner looks bad. I’d be surprised if it’s always looked like this and I never noticed, so I suspect something was broken. Here’s a screenshot:
There are two related problems with this. (I ...
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Are `math.meta.stackexchange.com` and `meta.math.stackexchange.com` the same website?
Are math.meta.stackexchange.com and meta.math.stackexchange.com the same website?
The order in which the words "math" and "meta" are swapped.
math meta
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What to do when my question has already been asked and answered, but unsatisfactorily?
I would like to ask about the classification of finite simple groups, in particular, how we can be confident that it is correct. This post asks essentially the same question, so if I were to ask, it ...
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Similar questions about the misunderstanding of limits of products
I've been noticing that we get a lot of questions like Why do I get two different answers while doing this simple limit math?
It's basically the traditional thing where people don't understand where ...
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Close vote immediately followed by a reopen vote
I voted to close this question as "needs more focus" when it already had four duplicate close votes. When I voted to close, it got closed as a duplicate. Since I didn't think that it was a ...
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What triggers the automatic reverse voting?
I have gotten a few "bursts of downvotes" in the past few weeks that look something like this in my inbox.
I would assume the site would automatically catch this and reverse it, as happens ...
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View count different in main list and search result
A question of mine is currently in the Top list (most recent) and has had 13 views. However, if I search for "mirror symmetry in partial sum plot", it is listed in the search result with 2 ...
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RH and objectively bad questions [duplicate]
I do understand that random reformulations of the Riemann hypothesis aren't good questions, but apparently related questions can also be seen as bad. My questions was closed with the usual message: &...
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A Query around Question Bans
I am currently under a question ban where I can't ask any questions. One thing I have tried is to put different questions in place of deleted questions.
See examples below:
https://math.stackexchange....
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Do we downvote all PSQ? Also a few questions about comment-answers and comment-hints [duplicate]
At the time of writing, this post has 28 views and no downvotes (or upvotes). I see it simply as a PSQ (Problem Statement Question), and it is quite possible it will be closed soon. I didn't downvote ...
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How do rid my question of hanging quantifiers?
According to a user (who deleted his comments) my question contained hanging quantifiers which prevents people from fully understanding my post.
The problem is when he rephrased my question (in the ...
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Can I post these things here
Can I post problems that are partly unsolved (not the highlighted ones, rare ones) on math stackexchange with the research or working that has been done before, hoping that some users may find it ...
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Is a new and interesting but long proof appropriate for the [proof-verification] tag (and the site)?
Let's imagine that an MSE user believes they've proven some non-trivial open problem, perhaps something on the edge of recreational (packing, magic squares, etc). They have a proof that can be ...
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Self-closing oddity
I recently asked a question, and in a comment Eric Wofsey observed that it was substantially similar to an earlier question I had not seen.
I agreed, and voted to close my own question. I expected ...
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Wrong accepted answers [duplicate]
A new phenomenon I noticed on Math.SE after I returned here after a long pause is wrong accepted (and sometimes highly upvoted) answers. Looks like when most users see such answers they assume that ...
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Colouring text and having it formatted
I tried the following, but it loses all formatting when creating a question in mathematics. Is there a way to specify coloured text which retains some form of formatting ?
$\color{blue}{\text{So the ...
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Are my questions really this bad?
I just noticed this "recommended" badge in my profile and I'm rather confused.
I have $20$ out of the $5$ needed questions for this badge, but apparently they are "poor" questions ...
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How to deal with the negativity of a power user that picks on you?
For a while, I've been having my suspicions about a certain power user that often downvotes my questions - both here and on MO. Now, I know for certain this user has downvoted a question of mine at ...
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Can no longer quickly preview LaTeX on MSE
It used to be that every time I wrote a question, the LaTeX in the preview would almost instantly compile. As of this week, I have to wait several seconds before seeing it appear. Nothing on my end (...
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Follow-up on previous question about comment-answered questions
Last week I asked this question on what the current policy is on comment-answered questions.
I thought I had reached an understanding. The top answers expressed that if someone sees this, they should ...
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Format conversion problem For mathjax
Take the code “[{f_i} = {x_i}\left[ {{c_i} + \ln \left( {\frac{{{x_i}}}{{\bar x}}} \right)} \right]]” for example，I could get the proper formula displayed on the official website of "https://www....
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When is a question 'recreational'?
I was going to tag this question as 'recreational-mathematics' because it is not directly related to core syllabus topics.
Placing an integer's divisors around a circle
But then I observed that I ...
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Making my question (and sub-questions) rigorous and readable? [closed]
Question for this post: In my post, how do I make the motivation and question rigorous and readable to get a proper answer. (It received downvotes when I first originally sent it to math overflow but ...
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Asking and editing good questions, but still receiving more downvotes than upvotes [duplicate]
I edited and improved some Math StackExchange questions as much as possible, but I'm still receiving more downvotes than upvotes.
What should I do?
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Better command for $\require{cancel} \cancel{\exists}$ (There does not exist)
After searching the MathsJax tutorial pages, I couldn't find an actual symbol for $\require{cancel} \cancel{\exists}$
The way I have written it <\require{cancel} \cancel{\exists}> is the best I ...
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What is [euclidean-geometry] for?
Isn't Euclidean geometry the assumed default kind of geometry unless stated otherwise? What information is added by tagging a question as euclidean-geometry instead of just geometry?
I suppose it ...
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Standard response to "homework" questions [duplicate]
Does there exist a boilerplate response to comment on questions that consists of a problem with no effort at a solution (as might be posed by a student posting a problem from a problem set)?
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Treatment of comment-answered questions: what is the current policy as of February 2023?
I have noticed that quite a few questions tend to be answered in the comments.
This was apparently observed $12$ years ago to a similar extent. These questions (unsurprisingly) tend to be on the ...
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How to better ask problems from known contests?
As we know, AoPS has got contest collections, containing threads where users discuss corresponding contest problems. Therefore, is it really necessary to ask them on mathematics stack exchange, if one ...
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Why did my question about Lie algebra software get closed?
I asked a question about mathematics software here, and the question was closed as "this question is not about mathematics." But there are numerous questions on this site asking for ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Embedded Desmos Graphs
As of late I have been using Desmos for a variety of demonstrations. Some of these demonstrations are humbly interactive. It seems to me it could be a nice feature to be able to embed the graph at the ...
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Suggestion: Add https://hsm.stackexchange.com/ as a migration option [duplicate]
Occasionally we get questions that are focused on the history of mathematics, for which there is the lovely https://hsm.stackexchange.com/ . Can we get that added to the "belongs on another ...
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Closure of a question about terminology
Yesterday I asked a question about terminology and to my surprise it was closed and downvoted. I would like to understand why. Here is my reasoning:
Usually there are good reasons for the choices of ...
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I really want to see a post but it was deleted. What should I do? [duplicate]
I found a post on Mathematics Stack Exchange by approach$0$ which would be very helpful to me, however opening it I saw it was deleted.
From the title, I saw ...
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Tag management 2023
New year, new tag management thread.
Rules of the game are basically the same:
Post your suggestion as an answer here if you see
A particularly bad tag (a rule of thumb: “if I can't imagine a person ...
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Why was my edit rejected by deviating from the original intent?
My edit on this answer just got rejected with the reason below:
This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals ...
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