Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Strange link text in a possible duplicate
I've just flagged the question Indefinite integration $\int\frac{(2x^2)}{2xcos(2x)+(x^2-1)(sin(2x))}$ as a possible duplicate of another question posted by the same user. In the link text, a strange ...
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MathJax rendering issue while looking at someone's profile
I have encountered the following issue looking at my profile, see it in the photo.
This also happens if I change the browser or log off from my account or even if I check from my phone, and it also ...
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Odd inline mode MathJax rendering problem in the MathJax basic tutorial
I'm seeing something odd with the inline MathJax rendering on the MathJax basic tutorial.
There are 15 items in a numbered list in the tutorial. For items 1 to 5 (and also the first part of item 6) ...
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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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The error message “Unable to load popup -please try again” when I start a bounty
Recently, I tried to start a bounty for two of my questions. But the error message "Unable to load popup -please try again" appears every time I start the bounty.
I don't know whether it is a error ...
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Edit summaries/revision history cannot handle MathJax properly
Sometimes if somebody edits the MathJax part of a question or answer MathJax breaks down in the revision history, creating italics and messing up formatting so that its really hard to see what changed....
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Why we can't see suggested edits rendered in latex before approving? [duplicate]
I've noticed that when viewing suggested edits there is an option to show rendered output but it doesn't actually show what the edit will look like after latex has been compiled. I realize there is ...
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Reviewing Suggested Edits
As part of the mod tools, there is a tool to review and approve suggested edits. The "review suggested edits" shows something like below which is not of much help to review and approve the edit.
It ...
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(Major) editing bug
This happened a few minutes ago. When I was editing a comment, the phrase [object Object] came up, and after I write something next to it, say ...
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Reputation change doesn't appear in the “feed”
So the election for a new moderator are at the last phase and after reading what the candidates have to say I voted, and so I got Constituent.
From the moment I ...
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A feature requested for the purpose of avoiding unintentional newbie-biting
It is not unusual that a newbie posts a question that is obviously about mathematics and it is closed with a notice that says
closed as off-topic
and then down below that:
"This question is ...
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Duplicate question notice checks closed duplicate for answers instead of target
In March 2016, Exact duplicate doesn't require answer but claims one exists was implemented, which purported to show a different notice if the duplicate target has had no answers.
However, for ...
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Which is my identicon?
I’m confused about my identicon.
When I’m using iOS app, it’s a green one; however, on the website I get a blue purple one.....Could anyone tell me why? Thanks!
PS: I now can see I have that blue ...
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What happened to the [support] tag on meta?
The support used to be given in boldface, indicating that it was one of the primary tags. But now it is not boldface anymore, meaning that there was some change in the functionality of meta-sites.
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[proof] tag (again)
In the past we had a couple of discussions, and it was decided -- I thought -- that the tag proof shouldn't be used. Now we have more than 50 questions with this tag again. Could we please get it ...
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MathJax requires escaping of certain markdown symbols between single dollar signs
The braces disappear in this TeX code (${a,b}$) given by ($\{a,b\}$). This occurs whenever the parenthesis are adjacent to the dollars.
I'm not sure if it is a ...
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Let's require registration to ask a question
More than two years after http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/q/4569/, this may be the time for reconsideration. A brief update:
In July 2012, when the aforementioned discussion took place, the site ...
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Bug on the moderator election page
Disclaimer: The following screenshots are examples and may not reflect my voting decision (I purposefully played around with the votes to test the bug).
See the screenshots below coming from the ...
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Is it possible to spoiler multi-line mathjax?
I can't work out how to do it.
This:
>! $$a=b$$
>! $$b=c$$
>! $$c=d$$
Produces this:
Whereas this:
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Fixing the newly created “geometric-invariant-theor” tag
A tag for geometric invariant theory has been created today, but it comes with a problem: the final "y" is missing, therefore its current name is geometric-invariant-theor.
Is there an upper limit ...
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Is the moment-generating-functns tag spelled wrong on purpose?
The moment-generating-functns-tag seems to be spelled incorrectly.
However, it could be due to a limit on the number of used characters, but since I couldn't find anything on it, I just wanted to ...
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Does the iOS app stop supporting horizontal scrolling?
About two years ago, I posted this question on Meta to raise the horizontal scrolling issue then existing in the iOS app. Owing a big thank to the Community, after one or two version updates this ...
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Tabs 'Questions' and 'Answers' on user profile aren't readable when selected
On my profile page (and I'm sure yours as well), in the Top Posts section, the active tab ('Questions' or 'Answers') isn't readable because it's white-on-white:
On Meta, the selected tab is readable (...
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Why can't I access (view) my profile page?
When I try to access my profile page, it drops this error. I have no idea what's going on?
Edit: What could've caused this error? It appears to be fixed now.
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Links in spoilers aren't hidden
An answer today caught my attention: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/2185406/62967
Here's an image of what I see with Safari 10.0.3 (with Firefox 52.0 it's the same):
The link in the spoiler is not ...
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Let's get MathOverflow's “Citation Helper” here, too!
MathOverflow recently received a brand-new toy: a citation helper that adds a new button to the post editor to allow references to journal articles (and more?) to be added to posts quicker and easier.
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Proposal: make the “interesting” tab the default on Math.SE homepage
Proposal: change the default home page tab of Math.SE from active to interesting.
Explanation and Rationale. Math.SE is the second most active SE site by the number of questions per day, behind ...
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Hot network questions incorrectly use MathJax [duplicate]
This is the converse of http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/10570/title-formatting-of-latex-in-stackexchange-hot-questions-list.
I noticed that when on Math.SE, MathJax can screw up the ...
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Dollars in the “Hot Network Questions” get mistakenly loaded by MathJax.
I've noticed that dollars in the “Hot Network Questions” get mistakenly loaded by MathJax, e.g.
(Feb. 23, 2017, AK) The bug is still at large, as can be seen here:
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Retracting a flag [duplicate]
Is there any way to retract a flag that has been cast accidentally and the post has not undergone any change after the flagging?
I saw this post on Retracting flags and that the feature request was ...
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Writing answers works very slow
I don't know if this is a bug. Maybe it's just my operating system (ubuntu 10.10), computer, or browser(Mozilla 3).
As of yesterday, I can write answers very hard. I noticed that before, the latex ...
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New “Sheriff” badge acting strange for Qiaochu
I just noticed that I've received the new "Sheriff" badge for serving one year as a moderator. I got one copy of the badge (since I resigned a month before my second year would have started), but ...
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Ugly spacing when using \binom
The rendering of binomial expressions in MathJax seems a bit off. The spacings are a bit too large in my opinion and it looks a tiny bit asymmetrical.
Inline
Lorem $10+\binom32\times\binom xy$ ipsum....
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MathJax preview broken when equations contain `\label`s
One can use \tag, \label, \ref and \eqref the usual way ...
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Repeated (x 24) achievement notification
Today I got a notification for a single achievement ("Nice answer" badge) repeated, about 24 times - the screenshot shows the first ones. Never happened to me before.
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MathJax is breaking in short expressions frequently today.
Formerly MathJax in comments broke if you had too many consecutive non-blank spaces, and too many was a moderately large number. When it breaks, you see MathJax code in red letters rather than the ...
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User Percentile computations appear to be wrong
Forgive me if this has been brought up either here or meta.se before, but I could not find it in either.
On a user's activity page, beneath their reputation, there is a label that says "top x% ...
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Responses tab on activity page doesn't work
Recently (the last couple days) the "responses" tab* on my activity page is dead.
*Link will (try to) take you to your responses tab.
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“Math Processing Error” in the Android app
Below are a couple of screenshots take while using the Stack Exchange Android app. As you can see, each has [Math Processing Errors] (although not every MathJax instance brings up this error). When I'...
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Do we want a new custom meta-close reason “Is intended for the main site”?
One of the most common reasons to close a meta question is that it is just a misplaced post intended for the main site.
Since this is an error mainly committed by new users, I think it could make ...
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Review audits should not include deleted migrated posts
I was just trying to procrastinate a bit of work, so I figured I'll check the review queue. This came up:
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/close/571044
It is a closing vote review of a question ...
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MathJaX spacing in Safari (OS X)
Since MathJaX got updated on MSE, I experience a lot of trouble with the spacing following formulae.See for example the spacing following $\dot C$ in the following picture.
The period following $\...
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Shaping the shape tag
I looked around on meta but can't seem to find a question about this, so here goes.
Posting this question this evening, I looked for a shape-operator tag. This tag wasn't present, but I saw shape, ...
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Exact duplicate doesn't require answer but claims one exists
This question was (rightly) closed as an exact duplicate: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1717381. (If I'm not mistaken, only moderators can do that.) The message at the top differs from the ...
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Why is a synonym appearing in the tag list, with a distinct number of questions?
When searching for "trigonometry" or something similar in the tag list (or when editing a question), the trigonometric-functions appears, and is said to contain 72 questions:
But there's a twist: ...
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How about we blacklist [number]?
The number tag made a horrible comeback today with already two questions. I feel this is a zombie tag which keeps coming as we keep killing it. And unlike some historical figures which are said to ...
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HTML double-encoded in “No, my question is different.”
I got this text:
No, my question is different. <a id="edit-instead" href="/posts/1620964/edit">I will edit to explain how.</a>
expected:
No, my ...
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Automatic line breaks with the new CommonHTML renderer
The old HTML-CSS renderer was configured to allow automatic line breaks in long formulas:
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TeX math markup is sorely needed
This site is going to need TeX markup to express mathematical symbols and formulas well.
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Received the “Mortarboard” badge due to Serial Voting. Can this badge be removed please?
The system identified and reversed a surge of up-votes between 07:53 to 07:58 and a second surge from 08:16 to 08:18 on 12/23/15. Overall I gained a total of 140 reputation from this mysterious '...
