Questions tagged [specific-question]
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What is wrong with my question on the definition of tangent plane?
I asked this question yesterday, and edited it today to include clarification.
It is - I think - a fairly honest and straightforward question, and I have provided a detailed explanation of my thinking ...
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Why was my question down voted and deleted, even though I mentioned my level (learning on my own in the Internet) and showed source and my reasoning?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Can a residue class $(a \textrm{ mod } n)$ have a negative $n$?
My question is: could someone provide me feedback on why this question was ...
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How can I improve my question on the factorial formula?
I thought I asked a decent question but it has been downvoted. I don't know how I can improve it. Please provide suggestions.
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Is this number-of-subsets question appropriately structured for Math.SE?
This question has apparently been kicking around for about a week now. While the core content is interesting, at this point it seems to be mostly an opportunity for the poster to go on at length about ...
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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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What can I do about my question being deleted?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Riemann integrability of a function with infinite points of discontinuity
I am a new user on mathematics stack exchange and my experience ...
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How should I rewrite the beginning of the linked post?
How should I rewrite the beginning of this post?
It seems people aren’t commenting since it’s difficult to understand.
Any suggestions are welcomed.
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I have written a wrong answer and have no means to correct it. What should I do?
I wrote an answer but later found that the method used was wrong. Moreover, other answers have already covered other methods and I can't think of a new answer (which could have been used to edit) . ...
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Should I split my (specific) post up into two questions after posting?
This is pertaining to my recent question What are the algebraic and geometric multiplicities of the eigenvalues of a Kronecker (or tensor) product?. I chose to ask about both the algebraic and ...
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Why is the answer not accepted?
I was trying to understand if it was true for the Dowker notation that every crossing gets an even and an odd number. The question was asked by somebody else. I think the answer is satisfactory but it ...
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Is my queueing theory question completely misunderstood? [duplicate]
My question on queuing theory has been closed as "not about mathematics". It references a paper about ChatGPT, but that is completely incidental to the question.
The question and associated ...
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Why did my question about Lie algebra software get closed?
I asked a question about mathematics software here, and the question was closed as "this question is not about mathematics." But there are numerous questions on this site asking for ...
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Closure of a question about terminology
Yesterday I asked a question about terminology and to my surprise it was closed and downvoted. I would like to understand why. Here is my reasoning:
Usually there are good reasons for the choices of ...
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How can I make this question title less clickbaity? "Weird geometry problem with very elegant result"
I recently posted a question with the title "Weird geometry problem with very elegant result".
While this title is truthful (I explain the weirdness in the body of the question, and the ...
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Please help me to get some feedback on why my question is closed [duplicate]
Question: Cases when iteration preserves commutativity
I don't necessarily object, but I cannot understand why it was downvoted and then closed. This question is really specific. I tried to provide ...
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Please elaborate why this question was deleted.
https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4599061/1020656 I asked this question some days ago and also got some clear answers.( though I didn't marked any answer at that time as accepted because on that day I ...
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What context is needed?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: How to prove that the surface of sphere is measure zero.
I posted the question with context, but it is said that additional context is ...
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Confusing rolling back of edits by the moderator
This recent question: Show that the $l_p$ norm of $x$ as $p\to 0$ is the support of $x$ was nominated to be reopened in meta after edits. It was then reopened by several other users.
Here is version 4 ...
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Why was this question automatically deleted by the Community Bot on 08/13/2022?
Why was this question automatically deleted by the Community Bot on 08/13/2022?
(And for no apparent good reason, that is!)
I tried voting to undelete, but it says I can no longer vote to undelete, ...
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Why was my post was removed from the HNQ list? [duplicate]
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Why was my recent post: Side of the largest possible cube inside a cone? was removed from the HNQ list?
Context:
I do realize related general discussions (see below) but I don't feel right ...
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Feedback on downvoted question
Yesterday, I asked the following question on conjectured values of certain factorial rational zeta series. It was downvoted twice, and upvoted once.
I'm wondering where the downvotes have come from. ...
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Why was my question downvoted, and why won't people give advice when they downvote?
I was working through Griffiths' for quantum mechanics, and I came across some problems where we have to calculate expectation values. This motivated me to ask the following question: https://math....
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Why wasn't this question removed automatically from the HNQ list?
From previous discussions, I've come to understand that questions with MathJax in the title cannot become hot network questions, and that editing a title to include MathJax should boot the question ...
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Why should this question asking the proof of a statement in a book be deleted?
Added notes (upon request of clarification): No. This is not a direct request for undeletion as clearly indicated in the title of the question. Although it may have the side effect that people who ...
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Would this question be more suitable for Math Overflow?
I asked the following question, but I didn't get any answer, even after adding a bounty:
Finite-sample confidence interval for the sample mean of N iid Beta-Binomial random variables
Do you think I ...
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Why was this question on planar graphs closed like this?
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4425339/must-all-graphs-fulfilling-euler-s-formula-be-planar
I see no comments on it telling OP to improve something, nor do I see any issues with it except ...
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What is going on with these questions?
Today I stumbled upon two different (now deleted) questions. The format of the two questions was very similar: a question on measure theory (more specifically, on the exchangeability of a sum and a ...
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Why was my question on the objectivity of math heavily downvoted?
I posted the question Is math truly objective? which has been heavily downvoted (a score of $-9$ at the time of posting).
I have requested the downvoters to comment on the rationale behind their ...
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Find comment or answer about notation
If I remember correctly I asked a question during spring 2020 about group theory or algebra and somebody wrote that they had an informal symbol for a generalized operation (I think it looked similar ...
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How do I write a better title and improve my post?
I am unable to write a proper title for my question. It is too long and I'm unable to define “non-piecewise” in my title: Is there a non-piecewise average extending the average from Hausdorff Measure/...
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Why was my 2012 question closed as a duplicate of a 2019 question? [duplicate]
Here's my 2012 question. It also has 45 upvotes and 33 bookmarks:
Are there other kinds of bump functions than $e^\frac1{x^2-1}$?
Here's someone else's 2019 question that mine was closed as a ...
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I don't like the way my current question was treated. [closed]
Update: the main post is reopened.
I don’t like the way my last question was treated. All terms I used are standard and I got downvoted to -4 with no relevant answer.
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Questions from elementary beginners
I'm tutoring a high school student who is taking calculus for the first time. I've been trying to encourage her to become more interested in math, and so I thought it could be a good idea to teach her ...
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Why my edit to remove irrelevant commentary was rejected?
I suggested an edit to this question, in order to remove irrelevant commentary, like the intro:
I have been out of school for a long time an have an assignment that I am finding hard to grasp, I ...
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Not sure why there is a huge number of downvotes on my question?
I don't understand the downvotes on my question here: Make $2$ cubes out of $1729$ unit cubes, expected number of times you have to paint
I had shown my work so far, and was not asking for a complete ...
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Why has my question gathered so many downvotes?
My question: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4323572/why-are-we-always-concerned-with-showing-and-proofs-in-math.
I am not upset or angry that my question had been downvoted but just ...
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Deleted comments to post "Aproximating differential equation in maple"
Yesterday I asked a question in the post named Aproximating differential equation in maple. I received beneficial feedback and help but the help comments are not there anymore. Were they deleted or ...
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Receiving multiple close votes with old questions.
I am surprised to see someone flagged my questions — both asked long ago and had accepted answers — as missing context overnight.
Question 1 was asked years ago, whilst I was writing an essay and ...
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How can I provide useful links which may answer a question.
I am currently looking at providing this user with a resource which may answer their question, however I cannot add this as a comment as I do not have enough reputation. I am not sure if I should post ...
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Why was my question closed as "unclear or needs details"
My original question
What in the world is "unclear or needs details" about this question? I actually felt the question was a bit long and included some overkill.
What needs to be improved ...
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What's the issue with this question regarding style?
I was a bit skeptical of asking this question, since it seemed to be about style, which seems inherently opinion-based. However, there is a tag called "article-writing", which includes "...
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Is there anything to improve in this post which is about ambiguity in question about field axioms?
Can you talk about (the rest of the) field axioms when the operations are not closed?
Check out this deleted post if you want if you can: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4256287/generalising-...
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Question in the "First questions" queue, that was a user's second one
I have just reviewed a question in the "First questions" queue that in reality was that user's second question on MSE (the truly first one being from July 16th). Is this a bug? If not, how ...
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A question was closed as being a duplicate. But it's not a duplicate.
I recently came across this question which was closed as being a duplicate of that question.
But if we read carefully, we see that there is a slight difference.
In "this question", it's ...
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A question quickly closed and deleted
I've been trying to stay off meta recently, but I did want to talk about the following question:
Why is this proof of the collatz conjecture wrong
The question is now deleted, so here is a quote of ...
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Why is this question about functions off-topic
Why is the following question off-topic?
Why is every continuous function on the reals determined by its value on rationals?
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Would someone looking for this question know what a "codomain" is?
Looking at this question should the word "codomain" be changed to "range" in the title to make this post more easily find-able by those with same question? I.e. do kids these days ...
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Is there a canonical "What's the intuition behind integration?" question?
Is there a canonical "What's the intuition behind integration?" question? If not should we declare one? Either case here and here are two example of this question on SE. There are probably ...
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What might be the reason for this flag to be marked as disputed?
I'm talking about this flag.
Clearly, the OP wants an answer that explains that formula intuitively without expanding. The answer just expands the formula which the OP doesn't want. So, it's not an ...
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"Applications of intuitionistic logic" [duplicate]
This my question was closed today, and I don't understand why. Can anybody explain to me what was wrong with this question and why it was closed?
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