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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Did the Community user make a mistake?
Community deleted this question: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3977648/how-can-i-find-the-mass-of-the-pencil-cylinder/3977750#3977750
Yet, it certainly does NOT meet the criteria for ...
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scaling root problem
Background [TL;DR]
In my previous meta question Vertical space between superscript and square root sign, I attempted (not so successfully) to illustrate a display problem about the square root sign by ...
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Vertical space between superscript and square root sign
Background [TL;DR]
In Difference between Ornstein-Uhlenbeck, Vasicek and Geometric Mean Reversion, the radicals in these two equations
$$S_{T,i}=\exp\left(\ln(S_0)e^{-\alpha T}+\left(\theta-\frac{\...
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Verify we're human: does not work
In math stackexchange, I'm sometimes asked to verify if I'm human.
But actually it does not work since when I get the captcha actually I don't need to fill it. I just have to close the window and just ...
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Strange vertical alignment error in math mode text in the “Related Questions” list
This concerns the "Related Questions" list I can see tied to this question. A picture of the relevant link is below:
Notice how, in the $(4,4)$ ordered pair, the left $4$ is one pixel below ...
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Should linked and related questions be the same question?
I found this question which was rather interesting, and gave it an upvote, and I looked at the linked and related questions as well.
For some reason, the linked question was also part of the related ...
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Informed badge already achieved, but badge is still being aimed.
So there is this user that I found on MSE who turns out was suggesting edits on my posts, and I went to check his profile, and wow.
It seems like he has achieved his 'Informed' badge but it is still ...
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Asymmetry in Mathematics Stack Exchange Logo
I zoomed into the logo in the top left on my iPhone and noticed an asymmetry. Now you will see it too:
Here it is on my macbook (and also demonstrating the same issue on Math Meta)
The improperly ...
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Backslash-dollar in “code” format renders with two backslashes
"Code" formatted text in Markdown is indicated inline by putting the text between backquotes, or by indenting the text at least four spaces.
In the two examples below, I have typed a single ...
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Equations not shown, as if there is a problem with Mathjax
Today, I wrote an answer to this question. After posting the answer, it looks like this:
As you can see, the equations $ ( 1 ) $ and $ ( 2 ) $ are not shown properly, while equation $ ( 0 ) $ is. The ...
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Mysterious loss of reputation
I have recently noticed that I lose some 2-10 reputation points every day (been going on for about a week). I disregarded it because it was a very small amount and I used to think that my edits would ...
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Repeated question bug?
I just posted a question, when I was posting something happened and the site shown an error without any description. I clicked “send” again, the same error appeared. I refreshed the page, tried to ...
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Formatting bug on main site and probably all MathJax enabled sites.
The bug is about the >! spoiler maker.
Consider these screenshots (Click to maximise):
Here is the code to recreate the bug:
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Trouble displaying profile pictures
For a few days I am noticing that the profile picture of many users is not displayed correctly.
I see alot.
Yesterday I had terrible internet connection, so I thought it was me. But it is still there....
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Unexplained Problem with my Review Queues
In my review queue, it shows this.
This is a bit weird. My reputation, as seen on the picture, is 839, clearly enough to access First Posts and Late Answers. However, it is not shown on the top ...
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Famous Question badge awarded very late
My question, asked on Math.SE, linked here, has 12k views at the time of asking this question, but I am not awarded the Famous Question badge until a few minutes after this question was originally ...
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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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Edit highlighting seems incorrect
I believe the color highlighting here should be showing that the third formula
$$\implies (\alpha-\beta ) z+\beta (\bar z +z) + \gamma - \alpha \bar z = 0$$
was changed to
$$\implies (\alpha-\beta ) z+...
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Erroneous MathJax rendering
Look at the words "I am not sure" in the editing window and in the preview in this image. In the editing window they come after the expression that is shown following them on the next line ...
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Issue with vertical positioning of text with numbers
It seems there is something wrong with the text positioning on MSE site (seems alright on other sites as far as I've tried, including mathoverflow.net). Specifically if you type the following text in ...
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Is anyone else having trouble adding/removing tags to questions?
Normally you just start typing and after a few characters it autocompletes and you can see the suggestions. But now I can't see the drop-down bar. Anyone else experiencing this?
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links on RSS reader are not working very well
I am using this RSS reader but it is days that it is not working very well. For example I am following this user and today it has been notified to me that he has an activity with the following link to ...
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MathJax not rendering and only showing the latex code
it is very old problem and here is a screenshot of the problem
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problem with mathjax spacing in comments
In the last few months, I have noticed the following anomaly in the way that mathjax is being rendered in comments:
Currently $\$ a\backslash, b\$ $ seems to be rendered as a,b.
What is desired is ...
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Problem un-downvoting question [duplicate]
[This is different from this question: Cancelling an Upvote (Downvote), as this question here does not relate to which UI element to use, but relates to the conditions that must hold to change or ...
asked Aug 11 '20 at 19:34
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How to remove the pink edit box?
When editing answers and questions on Math Stack Exchange, I always see a pink box in which it is written 'How to Edit'. Now the problem with this box is that it hides the "Save edits" ...
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Bug in mobile version of the site.
Today, when I was going through the feeds, there was no option to go to the next page like it usually has. However, earlier I was suggested to use full site version instead, where all features work ...
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Do newly added answers wipe out comments in progress?
I've recently had a few comments I was in the process of typing out wiped out when a new answer was posted to the question. I don't remember this happening before, but I don't recall if the ...
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Why I can't see the “related” questions? [duplicate]
For the last two weeks (at least) I am unable to view the "related" questions. I can see the linked questions but not the related. Why this happens?
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The command \tilde messes up with subscripts.
Have you encountered a spacing problem with the command \tilde? To show what I mean, let's take a look at $\tilde{f}_{k}$ and $f_k$. Do you notice that the ...
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Edits on tag wikis counted for Copy Editor?
I was cleaning up and expanding the blurbs on several tag wikis when I noticed that the edits I'm performing on them seem to count towards my progress on the Copy Editor badge, which explicitly ...
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Aligning own operator with limits in MathJax (bug or not?)
I want to create an own operator with limits which would be analogous to
$$\sum_{i=1}^k\, \text{or}\, \prod_{i=1}^k$$
in the sense that the limits should be in the exact same position, but there ...
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No related questions are displayed (Updated)
Currently no related questions are displayed at the right hand bar.
Is it just a technical problem or does it have another reason?
An example has been attached.
Updated: The problem has recurred again....
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mathjax not rendering anywhere in firefox
Some days ago I just started to see dollar signs instead of any latex equation what should I do now
I use a windows 7 pc and I have switched my browser many times and cleared cache none of them seemed ...
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Mistake done by MSE in calculating score.
In my profile of Mathematics SE, it shows that I've score of $7$ in algebra-precalculus tag.
However, if you manually count the scores of all the questions ...
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“Improve this question” button on deleted posts goes to a page which says “This post is deleted and cannot be edited.”
I went into my "recently deleted answers" tab and found this question (which is now deleted, so you cannot see it if you have <10k rep) which I answered. I can't normally see deleted ...
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Math numbers rendered as FaceTime phone number
In a recent answer of mine, I noticed that a chain of equations renders correctly on my laptop but incorrectly on iPad and iPhone. The iPad/iPhone treats a particular number as if it is a phone number....
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$\rm\LaTeX$ align code is not working properly.
Recently I had answered a question.
I had used the $\rm\LaTeX$ command \begin{align}...\end{align} but the equations are not perfectly aligned. This is the code I ...
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Searching for questions with a tag only gives bountied questions
Whan I search for a tag on the main site, the list produced seems to have the added proviso that there is a bounty attached to the post.
For example:
It works properly on math.meta, and also works on ...
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Why do some questions look in lighter color? [duplicate]
What I mean appears in the following screenshot:
Why does the first question look lighter than the second? Any reason for this? (I haven't clicked on it yet)
I put the tag "bug" since I don'...
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Progress “towards” review badges is reported after the badge is awarded
When one looks at the "Stats" page associated to a review task, one can see the number of additional review tasks required in order to earn a badge for that review task. The silver and gold badges ...
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Can't see formatted output when reviewing edit
Recently, I've found that when I go to review an edit by a new user, I can only see the markdown, and not the formatted output. Here a screenshot of the top left corner of the page:
I'm sure ...
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What review audit is this?
The review
This is a review audit. But the system shouldn't trick me to say this is a possible spam. I almost fell for it. Luckily, I pressed the vote count and found that this is an audit. Is this a ...
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Latex not rendering regardless of browser
As the title says the math formatting doesn't show regardless of the browser or device I'm using. However changing the network with Vpn or mobile network solves the problem for some browsers so I the ...
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Possible bug with the edit command while reviewing first posts
Today when I was reviewing first posts, I noticed that if I edit a post, then once I press the "save edit" button, I'm not taken back to the review page. Instead I'm taking to the page of the post I ...
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Link to duplicate target does not show up
I voted to close this post as a duplicate of this other post recently, and the OP agreed with the close vote about an hour ago. Unfortunately, for some reason, the duplicate target header just reads "...
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Double notification when pinged on a followed post
StackExchange recently implemented a feature that allows users to "follow" a post in the sense that they get notified on every edit/comment below that post, as if they were the post owners.
I find ...
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Does MathJax really not recognize cosec?
I tried to get the trig function cosec in MathJax, but it comes out as $\cosec$. In contrast, it works perfectly well for sec: $\sec$. Of course, one can always use \operatorname{cosec} as a ...
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LaTex underbrace not displaying correctly
For some reason, this is what I'm seeing whenever an underbrace is supposed to be displayed on a post on this website:
It looks like some sort of cropped out icon. It's weird because it doesn't ...
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How can a question marked as a favourite not appear in my list of favourites?
I marked this question as a favourite, and indeed the question shows a yellow star when I access it, but it doesn't appear in my list of favourites. How can this happen?
