Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates a reproducible problem on the site that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error.
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The links on the "How can I format mathematics here" page are broken
On the page https://math.stackexchange.com/help/notation, there are two links:
https://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/tex-latex-mathjax-basic-tutorial-and-quick-reference
https://meta.math....
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\{, \}, \| and \\ need an extra backslash to be rendered correctly in math when composing a new question in MSE.
When composing a new question iver in math.stackexchange, some symbols need an extra \ (backslash) to be rendered correctly:
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Matrices not rendering correctly
I'm trying to write out a matrix equation, but the matrices aren't rendering correctly. I checked it in overleaf and it's formatted correctly there but for some reason it's not doing so here. I even ...
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Stack exchange goes to different question than in URL
When I type in https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/47 into safari/chrome, checking its suggestions did not replace the URL, stack exchange goes instead to Can you recommend a decent online or ...
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Is it a bug that post score differ in user's page and post page?
I noticed this in a user's page (the top post has a 28 score):
But in the post page it has a score of 27.
Of course, before I up-voted it, the score was still 28 in the user's page.
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Mathjax integrals displaying incorrectly
On my display the integral display too small and too far down. I see this on every integral displayed on the site.
$$ \int f(x) dx $$
which is rendered to
$$ \int ...
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MathJax preview works incorrectly in Google Chrome.
A couple of times now, I have drafted a question, only for the automatic preview to completely mangle the MathJax. Examples:
I expect $\{X\}$ should display as $\{...
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Chrome doesn't display some symbols
Specifically, I cannot see any \mathcal symbol. The \mathbb symbols are also in a very weired font. Here are some examples and what I see on my browser:
$$\mathcal{A},\mathcal{B},\mathcal{D},\mathcal{...
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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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Misformatted parenthesis in exponent
The formula
$$\begin{align}
\lim_{x \to 0} (\cos x)^{\cot x} & =\lim_{x \to 0} ((1+(\cos x-1))^{\frac{1}{\cos x -1}})^{(\cos x -1)\cot x}\\\\
…
renders like ...
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Reputation tab bug misreports numbers first time
I've seen this a few times recently.
The first time I load the reputation tab, if there is reputation change today and yesterday on the same question, it (sometimes?) counts the today number wrong.
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suspension period
I've read here that a suspension period can last at most one year. But I found an account which is obviously suspended for $\textbf{10 years}$ :
Have the rules been changed or has an error crept into ...
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Bug: Can't write matrices and newlines $\LaTeX$ in Tag Editor.
Problem: I can't write matrices and newlines with MathJax in $\LaTeX$ in the Tag Editor.
I've noticed on several SE pages that I can't write line breaks in MathJax. On some pages, an ...
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Mathjax is corrupted when I post an answer. [closed]
I have noticed problems when posting on Math StackExchange recently. Mathjax, whether posted by me or by others comes out garbled. Usually, all is well when I refresh the download. Most recently, ...
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Why using \mathcal command produce a square? [duplicate]
My computer is a MacBook Pro, using the 13.0 version (Ventura), and I'm using Chrome. See for example
or that
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What's wrong with my 'Curious' badge? [duplicate]
A partial screenshot of my MSE profile is as follows:
As one can see, I have already fulfilled the threshold to be awarded the 'Curious' badge, but it was never awarded to me. What's going on? Please ...
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When I use "intags:mine" in search, I get no results
In the past, I have searched "intags:mine" on the main site to get a list of posts I would like to see. However, now when I do it, I get no results (I've tried it many times over the last month or so)....
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Bug: "\fbox" is not correctly displayed in my browser if there is a "\tag" inside "\fbox"
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Some formulas I write in \fbox are not displayed strictly for me. The box around the equation has shifted to the left.
For example, the equation
$$
\fbox{$
\...
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Questions with favourite tag no longer displayed
The questions tagged (algebraic geometry) are no longer displayed in blue on my screen, although that tag is among my favourite tags.
I tried (through the edit) to suppress that tag from my ...
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Are there some Mathjax features that don't work on the 'Ask a public question' page?
I just posted a question on the Mathematics site that required the use of set brackets; however I could not get them to work as usual on the 'Ask a public question' page. On their own in math mode, ...
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Why is the tag (triangle) listed among the new tags?
When I look at the list of the newly created tags on Mathematics Stack Exchange, the tag triangle is listed there.
This seems a bit unusual, because this tag is a synonym of the tag triangles and the ...
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Mathjax renders really slowly
Mathjax often renders very slowly for me in the preview when I type up a question. I always have to stop typing and wait for 5 seconds. A similar complaint can be found here. The answer there says ...
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Piecewise Equation Formatting Issue in MathJax Preview
I am composing a question involving piecewise polynomial equations, but the preview formatting isn't coming out how I expect. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
The notation I'm using:
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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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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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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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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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Why does Mathjax look different on different devices?
On my personal devices Mathjax looks like
Whereas on other devices Mathjax looks like
For example, the arrow between $R^4$ and $R^4$ is thicker in the first picture and thin in the second.
The edges ...
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Can't place a second bounty after grace period.
I posted a question on Christmas and placed a bounty on it. I'm planning to re-bounty the question for 100 points today, but the system isn't letting me do that. Also, it is saying "award this ...
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quotation marks
$$
X_i = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if the }i\text{th voter will vote "yes"}, \\
0 & \text{if not}. \end{cases}
$$
$$
X_i = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if the }i\text{th voter will ...
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LaTeX barely loading on math.stackexchange on my PC
I'm not the first to report a problem like this, but I couldn't find any recent complaints about this from the past few years.
Lately, LaTeX symbols have not been loading very slowly for me on math....
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Bug in "Saving" in the review process
Steps to reproduce:
Go to the page of any specific review task, i.e. https://math.stackexchange.com/review/close/<review-id>.
Click the “Saving” button.
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\left and \right vs. \bigl and \bigr
Here is e^{-\lvert\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\rvert}: $e^{-\lvert\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\rvert}$
The bars on the absolute value are too small, so I decided to make them ...
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Why isn't the table command working?
In this question here
I'm trying to render some tables using this code
probability distribution of $C_1$
| event | probability
| :------- | :----------------: |
| 0 heads | $\frac{1}{9}$ ...
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Modifications don't show up on the timeline.
This happens frequently, both on the main site and on meta: An old question pops back up on the front page, I open it, the text under the title says "Modified today", but when I check the ...
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Bug in first questions review queue
From my understanding, the first posts review queue shows a red dot if it is above 10 or so posts. However, it is currently displaying a red dot and clicking on it yields no questions to be reviewed:
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Double posting of question
The last time I checked, there was a forty-minute cooldown to asking questions(see first comment). However, I noticed that one user has posted the exact same question twice at approx. the same time.
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Bounty Message despite Accepted Answer
Why am I getting this message? (Note in this case I'm getting it after accepting an answer.)
In this case, I had this message for long as I had neither accepted nor received any answer. But then, ...
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mathjax stops when I'm editing this question
I'm encountering this strange behave of the mathjax-system with this question .
Everything is fine if I refresh this page in my browser (Firefox) ; but when I start editing the text then the preview ...
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Why is MathJax parsing incorrectly for this linked question?
In the linked questions to Sum of the series $\sum_{k=0}^{r}(-1)^k.(k+1).(k+2).\binom{n}{r-k} $, I get:
but the correct parsing of the title is Find the remainder when $\sum_{r=0}^{2014} \sum_{k=0}^r ...
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Why does MathJax render differently on different devices?
On my laptop (macOS), $$\mathbin{\rlap{\,\,\bullet}\triangle}$$ renders as
On my phone (Android), however, the same code (i.e. ...
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Why is it so hard to find solutions in mathstackexchange
I was advised that this site has people who can answer and are interested in research. But I asked questions, no one bothers to look. So I edit thinking I might be the problem. I realise there maybe ...
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Frustrations with sorting questions/answers by score
I was recently hunting for an old answer of mine, and remembered it as being relatively high-scoring. To find it, I went to my answer list on my profile page, and sorted it by score. My answers were ...
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Is possible to use a spoiler for a list in a question of a proof?
I would like to use a spoiler in this post of the the proof of the point $1$-$3$ but unfortunately I was not able: so is it possible use a spoiler?
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Privilege page on reduced ads doesn't show on this site, even though there are now advertisements
This site has had advertisements enabled for some time now, as the team has been expanding those to non-technology-related sites, of which this site happens to be the largest. On such sites, users ...
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What does the "see reduced ads" privilege mean?
Supposedly I just earned this privilege. I clicked on the link and it took me to a page that lists a whole bunch of other privileges but not "see reduced ads". It's not like this website is brimming ...
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Why can't I edit the tags of my post? Why do people not seem to be interested in it?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Trying to prove a proposition about the nth order derivative of a polynomial by induction - is this correct?
I tried to add the proof-...
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Table rendering in preview but not in finished post
At a question just now the user was having trouble with the table he formatted not appearing correctly in the finished solution view.
I don't know where to check for these reports first other than ...
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Broken MathJax formatting on activity page
Here is a screenshot from my activity page:
running Google Chrome Version 99.0.4844.51 (Official Build) (64-bit)
However the browser or the version doesn't seem to matter, tested same thing on ...
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Custom TeX command doesn't render in search results
In my answer to Collecting Stickers! Evaluate occurrence of duplicates? I defined a custom TeX command \stir, which is rendered correctly on the page itself. When ...
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