Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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Can I ask that a closed mathSE query not be deleted
A mathSE query posted by someone received interesting info in an answer by someone else. I have bookmarked this query. Since it has been closed, I have also downloaded the (full) html page, just to ...
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I am unable to see all the possible badges, where can I find them?
I am trying to look for the Unsung Hero Gold badge. First, I go to my profile on the main MSE and go to activity. Then, I hit the gear icon here to get to the badge area
Here I am!
Now, I hit the ...
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Why cannot I approve suggested edits?
I still remember the time as I was able to approve suggested edits. Then at some point my approvals start require an agreement of a further user.
The only possible reason for this restriction I can ...
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What package do I use to write angular bracket symbols in Latex?
I want to express an unordered m-tuple (or symmetric m-tuple) as < a_1,...,a_m >. So while writing I used greater and less than symbols ( >', <' )from ...
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Appealing a rejected edit
I recently edited an answer to a question in differential geometry about computing the round metric.
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/1575851
The provided answer was a correct ...
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Are answers involving generalizations of previous answers accepted?
Basically wish to know the general consensus on the above.
I wish to post a generalization of a pretty famous integral result as an answer to an answer discussing that integral result.
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How can an image be made which displays correctly both in dark and light modes?
How can an image be made, for insertion into a StackExchange question or answer, so that if a user uses dark mode and the web page's background is dark, the image displays as dark with white ...
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Cannot find my question.
Yesterday, I posted a question in math.stackexchange.com and now I can't find it. The title included 'nonempty finite subset'. I clicked my icon and used ^F in my browser to find that string but could ...
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I answered a question and the question got deleted several hours later.
I answered a question yesterday. The person who had asked the question had accepted my answer and my answer had an up vote too. But in the morning I see some reputation change and saw that my answer ...
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If conditions change, are badges revoked if the condition no longer applies?
I've recently earned "tenacious", because a fair number of answers of mine have been accepted but have zero score.
However, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that certain of these ...
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Is there a way to see the list of solved questions?
I like to read how questions are solved and learn the method, so it would be nice to see the list of solved questions. Is there a way to do this?
Edit:
I assume the downvote came from my lack of ...
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Can you have two accounts for two separate people, on the same computer?
Can you have two accounts for two separate people, on the same computer?
My sister and I thought so, but she just tried to create a new account on this site. However, I personally can't ask questions ...
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I am a student and have reached my limit of 50 questions per month what do I do?
I am a student and have reached my limit of 50 questions per month. I am poor and can't afford a math teacher and have been using this site to teach me a lot of new things so that I can get better at ...
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Mathjax syntaxes that don't look very good?
These MathJax syntaxes look fine to me:
\require{cancel}\cancel{\Longleftrightarrow}
$$\require{cancel}\cancel{\Longleftrightarrow}$$
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Answer preview in MSE not appearing
Whenever I am going to write an answer or edit someone's post, I am not able to see its preview under the answer writing section in MSE. Why is this happening?
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A specific confusing MathJax syntax that works randomly or not
Today I ran into the specific MahJax problem for which I cannot find the cause.
Interestingly, if this Mathjax syntax somehow works in the Q&A area, it definitely doesn't work in the comment ...
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I have the answer to a question I wrote that was deleted
About a year ago I wrote a question and it was immediately deleted because I didn't provide enough context. But I now would be able to answer it. I saw on some of the meta questions that you can ...
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How do I report inappropriate usernames? [duplicate]
This question is asked on the behalf of our good friend futtbucker3000
https://math.stackexchange.com/users/904101/futtbucker3000
who also posted this answer on this question here, which is how I ...
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How are flags handled by the community? [duplicate]
I was going through my helpful flags, when I came across this question I flagged:
How to approach $\int\limits_0^\infty \frac{\tan^{-1}\alpha x\tan^{-1}\beta x}{x^2}\,\mathrm{d}x$?
Notice how the ...
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Is there a way to report very bad edits? [duplicate]
I have seen people make absolutely garbage edits to posts, including their own.
Take this question for example Graph Theory - Number of edges and vertices
Note that this is their username, the asker ...
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What is the problem in my question ( so far it has no received answers)?
I want to tell some clarifications about my last question: Existence conditions of an expression with algebraic fractions
A few days ago I have read a question here where someone asked if his question ...
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How many declined flags are you allowed to have?
I have $130$ helpful flags right now, $3$ declined, and around $37$ waiting for review. I was wondering, what would happen if a lot of the flags ended up declined? What threshold of missed flags are ...
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Recover closed question on math.stackexchange?
Is there a way to recover a question (talking about Veblen ordinal hierarchies and tetration) on math.stackexchange that has been closed time ago? Need to archive its contents on my webpage and I ...
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Double struck 1 in Mathjax
I want to type the 𝟙 symbol in Mathjax (physics.stackexchange) without having to copy the Ascii character. I found
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/204998/double-struck-zero-and-one which ...
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Are there ads on Mathematics Stack Exchange?
As far as I can tell, ads are displayed on some sites in the Stack Exchange network. (At least for users below some reputation threshold.) But I saw some contradictory information concerning the ...
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Deletion of flagged comments
Suppose I flag a comment, and the user subsequently deletes the comment before the flag is resolved. Do the moderators still see my flag?
(I tried searching previously asked meta questions, but could ...
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What is the problem in formulating my question
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Existence condition of an expression
I am new in mathstack and before writing a question I have tried to read how be able to write a quite ...
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Are questions about whether or not a complicated mathematical problem of something in physics has been solved suitable here?
I asked the question https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/616734/has-it-been-researched-whether-there-exists-a-shape-that-can-undergo-zero-resist on Physics Stack Exchange. It was not well ...
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How to search for bounties awarded to my answers?
Is there a convenient way to search for answers of mine that have been awarded bounties? I know that I can look through the "reputation" tab of my user profile, but this is very tedious, ...
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Is it possible to use the search function on stack exchange in the browser itself?
On the top of my page, I have a search bar in math Stack Exchange:
Now, instead of google, is it possible to directly feed my search query into this search bar itself from the place you type address ...
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What MathJax commands are most often used on this site?
Following Mark Bennet's question on Short and helpful advice on using Mathjax on this site, I've began drafting a tutorial aimed at complete beginners. It can be found here. It is made up of $5$ ...
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merge new account into old
Allen Hatcher has asked that his new, mysterious account, be merged into an existing one.
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If a binary quadratic form primitively represents $n$ and $n^3$, must it be the identity form?
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Can one use Stack Exchange to render mathematical equations for personal use?
Is it ok to use the "body" part (of questions and answers) to render LaTeX equations for personal use?
In other words is it OK to use it as a LaTeX editor-compiler for non Stack related ...
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Why does this produce math equations indented with grey bar?
By looking at the posts on Mathematics Stack Exchange I have figured out how to produce an inset of math equations, like this:
$S=\{1,2,3\ldots \text{ n for }n\in \mathbb{N}\}\\
Y_{i,j}=\{i|i\in \...
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Overuse of problem-solving
I noticed that the tag problem-solving is used frequently by newbies who have just one problem which they need to solve. Will anyone mind if I start deleting these tags from questions which are ...
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How to see math.se in your own language?
Suppose that you know only very basic English. And you therefore have difficulties when understanding questions and answers on math.stackexchange.
And suppose that you would like this site to be in ...
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Vertically aligned addition equation with MathJax?
I'm working on math project and I need to create simple vertical addition or subtraction equations. I read this page Page. I'm using MathJax for this project.
If I'...
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Issues happen when users change their username on the site
Sometimes I change my username on the MSE site. and it cause a problem. for example for my older comments on posts when I discuss with other users in comment section we normally tag usernames in the ...
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Is it possible to prevent substitution in approach0?
I don't know if the question is well suited here, but I don't know about a forum dedicated to this search engine, yet since it is widely used by MSE members, I guess that should do it (please redirect ...
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Why has my flagging option “very low quality” disappeared?
I've seen a couple minutes ago a post that, in my opinion, needs improvement. I immediately thought of flagging, but when I opened the flag window I noticed the option "very low quality" ...
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Downvotes after comments on a post [closed]
So like any other normal day, I was going through posts and found this one. I found that the answer posted by the user DMcMor was lacking a proper explanation to the question. So I downvoted it and ...
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Dark/ light color of up/down vote arrows
I noted that some arrows are darker than others. Could there be a problem in my computer?
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In MathJax, how can I get the index of a cube root of a tall expression to be at the right level?
In MathJax, the cube root of a displayed fraction comes out like
$$\sqrt[3]\frac ab .$$
Typographically, there are four things wrong with this. The main one is that the $3$ is too low. It should at ...
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How to flag a question that asks multiple duplicated questions?
How can I close Suggestions for a good statistics book and a calculus book? as duplications both What are the recommended textbooks for introductory calculus? and Recommend a statistics fundamentals ...
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Curiosity about a deleted question.
This question has been deleted, but I'm still a little curious about the claim. This is not the first time I have been curious about a question, but later I find out that it has been deleted. I'm not ...
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Why does the type (or the scale) of rating statistics change?
There is a little line showing users' ranking on the Reputation board that is at the Activity page (marked with red):
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Sometimes it shows the year rank ...
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What happens if exceed character limit in comments?
I am aware that for comments we have maximum of 600 characters to type and by curiosity I just happened to type some random words in a comment box. I expected that when comment exceeded 600 characters ...
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One of the best questions (in my opinion) that I have asked has been deleted
Recently, folks have downvoted, closed, and now deleted a question which I feel is a great question.
I suspect that either I will get a fantastic answer here why this is really a terrible question (in ...
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Discrepancy in reputation change between reputation league and user list
When I click on the users tab, it gives me a list of people who gained the most reputation in the last week:
However, when I look at the weekly leaderboards, it seems to say something completely ...
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Adding a bounty to an unanswered question, then copying an answer from another SE site. Is this allowed?
I wanted to start a bounty and I thought of getting to the unanswered ones. This one in particular is where I placed it.
I waited for a while and no one still answered, so all that was left for me to ...
