# What should I do when I get the correct answer to a question I didn't mean to ask?

So I recently asked this question. After reading the responses, and a day's worth of rabbit-holing, I've realized that I asked the wrong question (I also made the mistake of using the letter $$\omega$$ for hyperreal infinities and using the word 'transfinite').

The answer helped me realize this, and pinpoint what I meant ask, but now I have a problem. I see why the answer makes sense, and it's a good answer, but I also see why the question doesn't.

If I edit the question to clarify what I intended to ask, then I'd be asking a different question. If I reword the question to line up with how it was interpereted, then it seems trivial. I can't delete the question, because the answer is correct. What should I do?

• You gratefully accept the answer, and post a new separate question, where in particular you indicate the key differences with the other version. – Andrés E. Caicedo Feb 6 at 17:19
• Possibly also add a link to the new question in the old one? This could be helpful in directing people to the right one and in alerting them to the fact that it isn't a duplicate. – timtfj Feb 7 at 1:55