Questions tagged [specific-question]
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Was this question closed for being about an ambiguity rather than being ambiguous?
This question was just asked and quickly closed and downvoted, with 'lack of clarity' given as the reason. However I think the question is about as clear as it can be when it's asking about maths from ...
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Place bounty on another user's old question or re-ask?
I have the same question as Separable polynomial mod $\mathfrak{p}$, which was asked in 2013 and is unanswered. Should I reask it myself (and link them, of course), or place a bounty on the existing ...
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Why does this question with detailed background have 4 downvotes and 4 close votes?
I saw that this question by another user has 4 downvotes and 4 close votes (3 "missing context or other details" and 1 "needs detail or clarity").
Why all this negative attention?
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How should this be flagged if none of the options seem to apply?
This question Find $x^\circ$ in triangle below if if $AM = MC = BC$ came up in a Low Quality Post review today in a review queue and after reading the question, working it through I decided that the ...
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Why was this question closed (too niche?) [duplicate]
I asked this question of general topology a day or two ago. Admittedly it is a "niche" topic, which will attract people interested in general topology and maybe not many people outside of ...
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An almost 8 years old question was closed just after I added a new answer to it
This old question recently got closed. Just some days ago, I added a new answer to it.
Perhaps my action caused the closure of the question (e.g. draw close-voters' attention).
I am interested in many ...
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How to improve/phrase my specific question
Here is my question link
I realized that I didn't provide sufficient information when I first posted my question and started editing it a few minutes after posting since I got the first downvote. I ...
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What is the issue with my question?
A question of mine recently got closed for "needs details or clarity". I don't see what I could change to make it clearer and the person(s) who closed didn't provide any insight.
What can be ...
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Should the direction of this close as duplicate be in the other direction, or is this perhaps a good candidate for merging?
The well-written, well-contexted and well-received recent question Formula for bump function (+20) with nine unique answers (+19, +9, +8, +8, +6, +3, +2, +1, +1) that span a wide range of solutions ...
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Merging instead of closing similar questions
How do you solve this equation $ \log_{2}(x) = \sqrt x$?
How would you prove $\log_{2}x < \sqrt x$ for $x > 16$?
I understand these are duplicate questions in essence. However, I got really ...
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Please help improve this question on whether nCk and nCn-k are topologically equivalent [closed]
This is the question at the moment:
The original question was whether these two expressions are topologically equivalent, and I was was unaware that there was a theory which studies these symmetries.
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What is the reason behind my question getting closed? [closed]
The following question was asked by me on Math StackExchange. I was trying to evaluate this integral:
this integral
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\int_{0}^{1} \frac{\ln (x) \ln^{2}(1+x) \ln(1-x)}{x} \ dx
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I was stuck at the ...
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Was this question closed by a human or a bot? what more details could be added?
This question was closed because This question needs details or clarity.
"can there be an infinite set S whose elements all contain S? [closed]"
However, ...
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Query about question closed for "Needs Details or Clarity"
I had posted a question Query on reducts and core algorithm in Rough Sets [closed], where I was trying to understand a ppt example in Computational Intelligence subject.
I gave the example, I gave the ...
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Why was this question closed/deleted for lacking context?
This question was closed, and the reason was lack of context.
While I understand that an attempt doesn't equal context, I am confused as to what exactly was wrong with the post. The OP had made some ...
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Integral or Series Closed Form Inquiry
I know it's a dumb question still
I don't have premium access to Mathematica or Wolfram Alpha, so I sometimes get stuck. Can I ask on Math Stack Exchange community for help finding the closed form of ...
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Can you explain me why my question was closed?
This question was closed for being "opinion-based". I honestly don't see how this relates to any opinion. The answer is actually written in the comments and was here pretty much from the ...
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How do I get my question deleted?
I cannot delete this question because "it has an answer", even when the "answer" does not even attempt to answer the question at all. It only repeats what I wrote in the 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]
Question:
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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