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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Too long LaTex formulae not shown in comments?
If you try to show this formula in comments, it fails.
$$M:\left[\begin{array}{cc}x&y\end{array}\right]\mapsto\left[\begin{array}{ccc}x&y&1\end{array}\right]M=\left[\begin{array}{ccc}u&...
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2answers
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Internet explorer experiences “freeze” when first accessing math stackexchange
When viewing Math Stackexchange using Internet Explorer (IE 9), a "freeze" is experienced when first accessing the website. What I mean is that the Internet Explorer browser momentarily becomes ...
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“You seem to be using Javascript to avoid clicking the radio button…” error when posting a reason for edit rejection
Please fix as soon as possible. I have seen it using Chrome and Firefox, both used on Windows, if it matters.
Thank you.
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Still having trouble with crashes when composing answers in Chrome
I don't know if this is true for other people, but I am still experiencing at least some of the problems described here and here, namely that Chrome crashes when I try to write answers that are too ...
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2answers
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\varnothing does not work
I created a question with \varnothing to denote empty set.
In the preview it played nice, but on the question page \varnothing was replaced with \emptyset for some mysterious reason.
Why \varnothing ...
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1answer
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iOS bug? (23/24 August)
Main and meta are nearly impossible to navigate.
The "view full site" option isn't registering.
I see this: http://i.imgur.com/qsWLc.jpg
(note that the alignment is way off)
Anyone else??
Now I ...
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1answer
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Meta FAQ page outdated?
I just took a look at the meta FAQ page, and the section about reputation seems essentially outdated.
I don't recall much of a difference in privileges between the main and here (e.g. I can vote to ...
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rendering of radicals
$$
\frac{\sqrt{3(m-n)^2 n^2}}{2}
$$
This expression is getting correctly rendered here on meta. I copied and pasted it from math.stackexchange.com. There, the horizontal line did not extend far ...
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1answer
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Special characters in question body stop hyperlink working
There is a question whose hyperlink does not work, i.e. the mouse pointer doesn't change when I move it over the question title.
Here is a screen shot:
This is part of the Unanswered Questions list. ...
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Font not rendering properly
I posted an answer here on the main site concerning the cone over $S^1$. Now the notation I use for this is $CS^1$. On my answer, it looks as if the "$S^1$" next to the big $C$ has been raised up, is ...
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0answers
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“0 new answer to this question”
There seems to be a bug in the new answer notification system that rarely manifests (this is the first time I've seen it). It seems to occur when two answers are posted almost simultaneously. I saw a ...
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0answers
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Bug in which the incorrect user was temporarily listed as the owner of a question
In a moderator flag on this question, as well as in the comments, some users report having temporarily seen the user Shaktal listed as the owner of the question, when in fact the question belongs to ...
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0answers
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Automatic messages are not occurring
Yesterday,
When viewing a question/answer:
the vote counts updated automatically.
a banner automatically told when a post was added or updated.
When viewing the Questions page:
a banner ...
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2answers
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Questions not accessible from main page
It appears that certain questions are not accessible from the main page, e.g. this question:
Re-writing sign basis. I finally got it over the user's page, but the links on the main page or the tag ...
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1answer
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Why can't I revisit my own deleted question?
I posted a question and then deleted it. The text block turned red, and the "delete" button changed into "undelete". Presumably if I click the "undelete" link it will undelete the question; this has ...
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1answer
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Comment Link to OP not Possible
I recently tried to address the OP of this question in a comment. The auto completion doesn't work (at least not for me).
How can I (theoretical) call him? Is this a general problem of user, having a ...
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3answers
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\frac{}{} tex command is not rendered properly .Please help
Recently I have faced a problem in which the \frac{}{} tex command is not rendered properly by my chrome browser. The line between the denominator and numerator ...
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0answers
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Chrome fails to render the `\vec` template [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The \vec command appears broken in Windows XP
The \vec command seems to fail to render. Here's a pic.
The version is 20.0.1132.57 m
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2answers
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MathJax bug: spurious thick hlines in array on IE
This answer encounters a bug rendering arrays on IE, viz. compare two thick hlines in the first pic (on IE 8) vs. the correct rendering in the second pic (on Opera 12). Is there a workaround?
Also ...
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1answer
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Suggestion for changing LaTeX preview/compile frequency.
It appears that the preview box for making a new post updates on every key press. For small posts this is very useful and makes the whole process very user friendly as it permits immediate feedback on ...
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2answers
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Votes ending up at the wrong answer
For question with more than one answer with the same number of votes, it can happen that the vote for an answer ends up at the wrong answer. I think this happens if a partial update or reload changes ...
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3answers
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Problem with unpaired [] in math mode in comments [duplicate]
The following text is typeset correctly in a post, but it seems to be broken when posted in a comment. (Markdown somehow interprets left [ as beginning of a hyperlink).
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0answers
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Strange Inbox Behaviour
Is it just me, or there more people that feel that the inbox behaviour is kind of strange.
It seems that I miss some comments referenced to me and cross talk with other stack sites also doesn't seem ...
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1answer
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Problems with \not\equiv on Firefox 13.0
For the past few days I've noticed that \not\equiv is not rendering correctly; right now I'm running Firefox 13.0 on a machine running Windows 7.
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1answer
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Lines and Math Processing Error in a page while editing a deleted answer
While I was editing an answer that I had deleted, it displayed with lines and a Math processing error
Here's a screenshot:
This affected all the other answers to the same question and the ...
4
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1answer
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Supporter badge issue
Today, first time I logged-in to math.stackexhange.com. I have other associated accounts also, so I got $101$ reputation initially. I vote-up one question then ...
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0answers
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Strange bug with \frac and \text in comments [duplicate]
In a recent comment, I used the \text{} command inside a \frac{}{} command several times, and the comment was broken. Trimming ...
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2answers
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Duplicate banner breaks LaTeX
On several recent occasions, after closing a question as a possible duplicate the automatic banner breaks the $\LaTeX$ requiring manual intervening.
I don't recall it was like that before, and I ...
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0answers
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Drop box and Reputation page displaying different totals
Right now, my dropbox claims I've earned 295 reputation points; but the total listed in my reputation page is listed as 305.
Here's a screenshot (sorry, I don't have the necessary software to edit ...
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1answer
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Not getting notifications of a new answer posted on page
Usually I get a notification at the top when a new answer is posted to a question that I'm reading, but recently this has not been the case. This has happened several times and I've had to delete my ...
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vote
2answers
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MathJax fails when rendering long digit strings on iOS
This answer formats properly on Safari 5.1.7 on Lion, but on the iPad with iOS 5.1 the √2+6/√2=2.638958433764... does not format properly and I only see the MathJax, i.e. \$\sqrt{2}+\frac{\sqrt{6}}{2} ...
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2answers
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2answers
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Does this question seem to have formatting problems in Safari?
A few minutes ago, a user reported in a moderator flag that this question is not displaying correctly:
The whole page (questions, answers, and comments) has formatting problems. Something weird is ...
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0answers
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Math processing error and other issues with MathJax in Safari
These days I frequently encounter MathJax problems as shown in the figure below. Even if I reload the page a few times, the issue remains. This seems to happen on and off. Am I the only one having ...
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1answer
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Problem with enlarged fonts in Firefox
I use firefox (ubuntu) with enlarged fonts and have a problem with LaTeX formulas. They don't fit the space they a meant to occupy and overlay the ordinary text:
Link to the answer on the screenshot.
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0answers
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What's up with the Main User Sites?
The Meta User Site looks normal, but the main user site seems to be mix up:
I'm using Firefox 12.0
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5answers
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The scope of \newcommand is the entire page
LaTeX on this site supports \newcommand and \renewcommand. This is very nice, but I noticed that the scope of these definitions ...
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1answer
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MathJax bug upon page refresh
When entering this answer, everything looks good. Editing and saving also work fine. However, when I refresh the page I get $\color{red}{\textit{[Math Processing Error]}}$ for the line tagged $(3)$.
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1answer
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Faq doesn't explain reputation I got for an answer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
invisible, unawarded upvote
My answer got 10 upvotes, and according to my user page, I received 10 reputation points for the first 9 upvotes, and 6 reputation points for the ...
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Showstopper bug: MSE+MathJax unusable for 6 months with Chrome
For roughly six months or so, since around the latest MathJax deployment, the site has been highly unstable using recent Chrome versions (17-22) on Windows 7. I see guaranteed page freezes composing ...
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votes
1answer
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Annoying bugs when using Chrome
After recent update of Google Chrome I got two following problems:
When I'm typing my answer every 3-5 minutes my browser crashes down and say that I had to refresh the page to return back. But after ...
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votes
1answer
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Bug in reputation counter.
Earlier today I downvoted an answer which has a cost of 1 reputation point. Later I retracted my downvote which caused the missing point to return.
In between I also capped out at 245 points (votes+3 ...
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1answer
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Problem with cases enviroment
I am not able to pinpoint where the problem is - it seems that [] are the culprit there. Anyway only one of the following almost identical codes is rendered. (At the moment.)
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1answer
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Unreliable search box when looking for users on meta
This is a minor issue but a bit annoying: The list of users page on meta was recently modified.
Since that change was effectuated, the search option's behavior is somewhat erratic:
While users ...
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1answer
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Bug: answer posted after closing the question.
The question https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/132072/does-doing-mathematics-make-you-more-intelligent was closed, but 13 minutes after closing there was an answer posted.
I suppose this is a ...
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2answers
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Wrong HTML rendering of inequality signs
I'm seeing some TeX formulas such as $i<k-1$ rendered with < in HTML where there should probably have been < ...
asked Apr 13 '12 at 22:46
hmakholm left over Monica
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comment with line-filling equation gets garbled, with signature on top of text
The display of this comment is badly corrupted in my browser (Firefox 11.0 on Mac OS 10.6.8). The signature gets displayed on top of the end of the text. Since the comment contains an equation that ...
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1answer
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Reject edit with custom rejected
There is a pending edit to user Riemann's (not the mathematician) answer to Evaluating Limit Question. It adds content to the answer, which seems useful but should not be attributed to the original ...
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2answers
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Spurious space within number
In this comment, the penultimate number in the list, $59930$, is displayed (in Firefox $11.0$) with a spurious space between the two $9$s. I made sure I hadn't inadvertently pasted any invisible ...
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Certain comment contents break LaTeX rendering for the whole page
I commented just some minutes ago on this question, and every post in math.SE returned a [Math Processing Error]. Not only for me, but for every other user.
What is going on with this question. I ...
