Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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Why can someone make his/her own question as favorite?
I think it makes no sense to allow a user to make his/her own question as favorite.
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Why is score up-votes minus down-votes? [duplicate]
Why doesn't site allow users to see the total numbers of up-votes and down-votes respectively? Why is it just show us the difference?
I know that votes are intentionally anonymous. But revealing just ...
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Is it possible to see how many users are online?
Is it possible to see how many users (especially experts) are online? or I should find it by checking user by user? It seem to me that nobody respond to my recent posts.
Where can I find in my ...
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LaTex underbrace not displaying correctly
For some reason, this is what I'm seeing whenever an underbrace is supposed to be displayed on a post on this website:
It looks like some sort of cropped out icon. It's weird because it doesn't ...
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Clarifying a factually incorrect case but editor opts for formatting change instead?
I am trying to edit this answer, which makes a claim about eigenvectors that is not true for all matrices. My edit was rejected. Instead, the editor followed up with a baffling formatting edit that ...
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Can I search by UserName AND Tag? Eg: All my posts about series-seq? [duplicate]
Can I search by UserName AND Tag? Eg: All my posts about series-seq?
The search: [sequences-and-series] user:JackOfAll
returns 30,000 results!
Not right.
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How many variations of this grey background are there?
In Math Stack Exchange, it is common to find in an answer the question rewritten like this:
Find the remainder when $2^{55}+1$ is divided by $33$
Then you find someone has hidden one of their ...
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What do you do when, in editing with MathJax, what you see in the preview is OK but the result is all messed up?
I tried to edit this answer. When the preview looked OK, I saved the edit, but the actual outcome was a mess. I tried various workarounds, but each time the result, despite a good preview, was worse ...
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Text within curly braces (mathjax).
Hi: I was defining a set with curly braces and put some words in between. For instance: {f: for all x, f < x}. If I enclose all between dollar signs (ds) the text will be poorly legible. Let's ...
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I am experiencing difficulty in the rendering of posts in the “review first posts queue.”
For the last three hours or so, when I see a post in the first post review queue, and click on it, I get the standard left top column menu "Home, questions, ..., appearing immediately above a post up ...
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Mathematical Alphanumerical capital I symbol
I'm looking to type this
that I saw in a pdf document. However, when I google the mathematical alphanumerical symbols on Wikipedia, it has symbol styles for other letters, but I seems to be reserved....
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Reputation numbers and the meaning of some items in my control panel.
[I know I can't control anything in that panel but I had to choose a name for it.] When I enter math.stackexchange.com I can see a page (I'll call it p1) with a bar on the top containing, on the right ...
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Reopen a question that's been closed with incorrect reason [duplicate]
I have a question from this book section 1.2 question 1:
Solve parameter representation $x_1(\tau),x_2(\tau)$ for $x_2^2=x_1^2+x_1^3$.
Somehow it was closed for details or clarity. However, if you ...
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How to write appropriate numbers in non of math, physics and chemistry sites in stackexchange? [closed]
in my question in my ell.stackexchange account, I want that look like user$20445$ instead of user20445.
How can I do this? I am not comfortable with these inappropriate numbers.
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I am not allowed by you to post images but my reputation is over 300.
Hi: I have posted a post in math dot stackexcange dot com which includes an image and your site said that I could not post and image because I should have reputation above 10 to do that. But according ...
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Question on why I was temporarily barred from asking questions? [duplicate]
I'm new here. I logged in to my account a few minutes ago to ask a question and found out that I cant, because 'my questions hadn't been well received by the committee'. I checked my previous ...
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Why the definitions of $P(n)$ and $C(n)$ go over the usual borders of the question-box and how to fix this issue?
When you observe this question: Primitive Pythagorean triples and the limit of two counting functions, is this limit equal to $0$ or not? youĀ“ll understand what issues I am asking about how to fix.
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Need more specific details about policies regarding “review/close votes” [duplicate]
I have reviewed 700+ posts that were flagged to be closed, and I still don't fully understand the concept of what posts should or should not be closed. I have failed two audits in a week.
Here is the ...
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Will the “comment everywhere” privilege be removed if my reputations go back below 50? [duplicate]
and what about other privileges?
I have to extend my body of question! Why is this obligatory?! :)
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How do I re-enable MathJax after turning it off?
I accidentally turned off MathJax on a comment so I could see the LaTex source, and I don't know how to turn it back on again. I turned it off by right clicking in my browser, but now when I right ...
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Is it possible to store the good questions and answers of those users who has left or being removed by some reasons?
I want to ask a question to the moderators and the other higher authorities of Math Stack Exchange.
Question: Is it possible to store the good questions and answers of those users who has left or ...
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Advance knowledge of community deletions?
My answer to a question from 2016, https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1792625/is-the-sine-of-a-transcendental-angle-transcendental-or-algebraic was downvoted a couple of hours ago, and then a ...
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How many times we need to ask about closing quick questions of ā©new usersā© so that something is done about it?
I've searched old questions about the very short time for closing a question and unfortunately there are a lot.
I didn't get all of them (IIRC there was like 10 other pages to check them all) but I ...
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Is it allowed to ask two close questions to proof verification in MSE with different solutions?
I asked a question before, but I failed the solution I made. Then I made an almost completely different attempt to eliminate all errors. I re-posted the question, since editing the old question will ...
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Why is Umbral tag removed?
The tag feature of Math Stack Exchange seems to be a nice feature but I don't understand why some are allowed and some aren't.
For the example of umbral calculus, I tried the "umbral" tag. I can ...
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How do Community bounties work?
I recently answered a question with a bounty offered by "Community". How are such bounties awarded? Who decides which response gets the bounty?
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Need moderation
Does anyone knows how can I contact privately a moderator ? Many of my answers have been deleted for no reason. Even upvoted and accepted answers. Always by the same three members. I have flagged as ...
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Was asked to review a question that is more than 4 years old?
When reviewing the Close queue, I was asked (in earnest, not a test) about math.SE 987322, which is said to have been active last some 4 years back (?!). What is going on?
(The question is OK in my ...
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PNG images on stack.imgur rendered incorrectly on Chrome
In this post on main, when the PNG file is shown implicitly (one has to open a new tab to see it), the color scheme seems to be reversed (bright $\leftrightarrow$ ...
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Enable syntax highlighting on Mathematics
Would it be possible to enable syntax highlighting (colour) for code blocks on the Mathematics site?
Example from the Stack Overflow site:
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Mathjax format for combinatorials
Could someone direct me to a source that explains how to format combinatorial expressions, eg rCn in Mathjax?
Like.
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thanks
ralph
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Why can't I talk in the Pearl Dive Chat room?
Is Stack Exchange reputation different than regular? I have more than 20 reputation, but I don't seem to be allowed to talk in chat rooms.
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Why I am not able to ask questions?
In my profile I have asked 6 questions of which no have down votes. 1 have 0 votes and 4 have 1 up votes and 1 have 2 up votes. I don't have asked poor quality questions (no down votes). It's also ...
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Should I cross-post on MO?
About two months ago I asked this question on MSE and I have gotten no answers ever since. I also put some bounties on it and if I try to put more bounties on it I think I will lose some of my ...
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Help with Chat and Question
I am trying to add a user to chat I made because I have a question about his answer he gave a while back to a specific question Problem Here The person's name is the last answer at the bottom. Do you ...
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How to link a duplicate post to two different posts where there are answers?
Recently I've asked this question on MSE which has in fact two questions on it:
Describe all $R$-modules of low order (up to isomorphism)
Later, I realized that in two different posts there were ...
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Does reputation change if an answer gets deleted due to deletion of original post by vote(s)?
I recently found that the following post $\lim_{x\rightarrow +\infty}\sqrt{x}e^{-x}\left(\sum_{kļ¼1}^{\infty}\frac{x^{k}}{k!\sqrt{k}}\right)$ was deleted by vote(s) and as a result my answer also got ...
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When should one not edit their own questions?
I am the type of person who unfortunately makes a lot of mistakes of the dumb kind with miscalculations. Sometimes I end up posting my questions containing those miscalculations.
Is it ok to edit my ...
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Question about a simultaneous “massive” downvote [duplicate]
17 simultaneous downvote (only on Question posted, I think):
May I ask if there is some "systematic" reason ?
Thanks
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Should I create a new question?
I forgot a minus sign everywhere and I made a question wrong.
I asked
The differential entropy cannot be negative for pdf in (0,1) but the question should have been positive instead of negative.
The ...
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Typesetting variants of sum and integral signs in MathJax
Is there any way to enforce the lower and upper limits of integrals and sums to appear below and above the respective signs in MathJax (cf e.g. the German variant described here: https://en.wikipedia....
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Bracketed values with Mathjax
I would like to be able to produce something like this with Mathjax:
i.e. two values bracketed together, one value on its own in the middle and two more values bracketed together.
Does anyone know ...
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Request for Hyperbolic $ \sech \,x $ inclusion in MathJax
MathJax does not work for hyperbolic $ \sech \,x$... Can it be now included? Thanks in advance.
EDIT1:
From user1729's comment suggestion, they work okay:
$$\operatorname{sech}(x) $$
$$ \...
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Computational Math vs Computing
I am new to the Mathematics SE forum. I recently asked my first question. I received comments that it was a question about computing rather than maths. Today, I started receiving downvotes, which I ...
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Why is this question completely disappearing where I have answered and got a bounty of 200?
The hidden question was:
New numeration system, mapping to binary numeration system
Where I have answered with the copyright notice that must be always respected and not only for my topics, and my ...
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Write mathjax and text in the same line
This is not duplicated.
I know how to use the $ sign, but I want to write long equations and words after in the same line and I don't know how.
For example if I write:
$2=1+1=2(0.5+0.5)=\sum_{n=1}^...
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Typsetting my answer is hard unless I first post it
I have noticed a change in the stackexchange mathjax typsetting viewer over the past few months:
The "preview" that is displayed when I real-time type my answer is not as attentive as it used to be: ...
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Mathjax: how to ignore certain commands? [closed]
I'm writing a document in emac's org-mode, which exports both to Latex and to HTML. For the HTML portion, it uses Mathjax.
Now, ...
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What does “ask a new one” mean?
In this question it it written that:
This question already has answers here:
Sets. Classes. ā¦? (4 answers)
Your post has been associated with a similar question. If this question doesnāt ...
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How to define string remap in MathJax
For example if there is a lot of $R^2$ and $C^2$ in a post, how to map the plain text R2 to $R^2$ only in this post like:
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