According to an instruction in Help Center: Can I answer my own question? and an answer to a meta question Can I post a question and an answer just because I think it helps others?, answering one's own questions is encouraged. One (the only one if I don't remember wrong) of my questions of such kind (self-ask-and-answer):
Stein-Shakarchi Real Analysis Ch1 Ex2(a): representation of elements in the Cantor set
was put on hold as off-topic [update: now reopened]: "This question is missing context or other details". I had added the "where the question comes from" information in the title. The following are two minor improvements I can immediately make to the post:
- According to the objection in this meta question to posting images, I should have typed out the question;
- One can definitely guess with provided contexts though, the definition of the notation $\mathcal{C}$ in the question is not explicit: it denotes the "Cantor set".
(Since my linked question is under discussion in this post, I have not done the improvements yet.)
Here is my question:
Other than the improvements mentioned above, what kinds of "contexts" would be expected for this particular kind (self-ask-and-answer) of questions?
I don't see how the instruction
"Please improve the question by providing additional context, which ideally includes your thoughts on the problem and any attempts you have made to solve it."
applies to such questions since I have explicitly stated in the post that "I would like to ask it here so that I can record my answer to the question."