Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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Excavator badge not being awarded
I edited an answer that was inactive for more than 6 months, but wasn't awarded the Excavator badge. Why?
Although it is not specified in the badge criteria, but does the post being negatively scored ...
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Software for math related typing [closed]
I would like to ask if anybody knows what is the appropriate software for writing math text. I mean what is the software that is used on the several math/physics notes or papers? Is it just Microsoft ...
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How do I start a bounty?
I would like to start a bounty for the question:
How to calculate the integral of a product of a spherical Hankel function with associated Legendre polynomials
Below the questions and existing ...
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Question closed by its a valid question and I want to post an answer for future reference. [duplicate]
I posted this question: Optimal path on the surface of cuboid doesn't visit the same face twice. It was a simple one and someone answered it as a comment. I was planning to expand on the comment ...
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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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A Beginner and the Problem with the 50 Reputations Requirement
I have just started studying calculus and sometimes have questions which are super easy for the most members of the site.
I had a question and did not want to ask it because a similar one was already ...
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A question has been closed as not being about mathematics
I used to post here at least one question a week. Within the last few years, it has felt like the community has changed and the moderating has changed. I stopped being as active and watched ...
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Close as duplicate when the "duplicate" appeared several years later [duplicate]
It does not make sense to me that you get your question closed when the duplicate causing it to be closed has appeared many years later.
And the question being closed already has a satisfactory and ...
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How to rotate text by 180° and or mirror it in Math.SE?
I'd like to rotate and mirror text left-right in Math.SE, as plain text or inside formulae. What I tried is from a TeX post or this one
like:
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Why can't I edit the tags of my post? Why do people not seem to be interested in it?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Trying to prove a proposition about the nth order derivative of a polynomial by induction - is this correct?
I tried to add the proof-...
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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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Number of bounties offered by an user
Is it possible to see how many bounties offered a specific user and how many of these bounties were awarded?
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typing star between brackets in text
Suppose I write a post that contains equations that I like to refer back to later, like this:
$$3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 \qquad (*)$$ $$3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 = 6^3 \qquad (**)$$
$$3^4 + 4^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 = 7^4 \qquad ...
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Asking questions from a long proof
There is a proof from a book I have a doubt on, but the proof itself is quite long. Should I copy paste the whole text or can I just take screen shot from the pages in the book and put?
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Not sure if my use of mathematical notation is even correct
I just asked a question on this site. One thing I've noticed looking at other questions is that most seem to have pretty good formal questions and good use of accurate mathematical notation. Creating ...
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Reputation change bug
I recently answered this question (Simple quadratic function, but can't understand the question).I got 24 upvotes as well as my answer(edited by @Dan) was accepted; but my reputation change due ...
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Why is MSE still down (read-only)?
When accessing the main site, I see a banner with the text "This site is currently in read-only mode. We’ll return with full functionality soon. Follow @StackStatus, visit our status blog or ...
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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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Mathjax not working on Chrome 99.0.4844.51 (64 bit) Windows 7
This problem has started ever since I joined MSE (it never loaded on my computer!) Only recently I tried to troubleshoot the problem as I started using MSE more. I have tried everything mentioned in ...
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What is the significance of the yellow highlighting on some items in the list of MSE questions?
About 2–3% of the questions in the (recency-ranked) main list of MSE questions are set in a block of pale-yellow highlight. The selection appears to be random and doesn't seem correlated with my ...
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Why sometimes when I post a problem I need to wait for 40 minutes?
I recently was trying to post a maths problem but when I click on submit it tells me that you can post once in every 40minutes as such I didn't post anything at all before this in few months so why ...
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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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Comments no longer shown in All Actions
Up to quite recently (today perhaps!), when I clicked on my profile and then on "All actions" and "Comments", I used to see both the title of the question and the contents of the ...
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What fraction of users gained the established user privilege over the years?
I want to know, out of all the users who joined MSE in a year, what amount of users gained the privilege of becoming an established user from one year of that account plotted as a function of time (...
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How to have multi-line pasted text show as multiple lines of text in mathjax.
The only way I know how to have multiline text "show" as multiline text is to add 4-5 leading spaces to each line of pasted text.
line 1
line 2
This is ...
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Statistics of fraction of questions closed per month (posted that month itself)
Is there any way I can access the data of what fraction of questions are being closed as dupes per month. So, for example, I want to compare how many Qs posted in January this year was closed that ...
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How to write # in mathjax? [duplicate]
I am basically trying to write the above formula in mathjax but the # is causing errors in the code. How could I incoporate # as a symbol without errors?
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Searching and text delimiters
On math.meta, when I do a search for cstheory I get several results, none of which is this one:
(The question is here.)
For it to find this question as well I have ...
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How to write an encircled bullet?
How can I write in MathJax a circle with a bullet inside it? I know \odot, but this is a circle with a dot inside it; I want most of the circle be filled by the dark circle inside and only a thin ...
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How to left align a series of equations in MSE [duplicate]
When I use Latex, I use the command "flalign" to left align a long series of equations extending over multiple lines. However, this doesn't work when I write something in MSE. How can I left ...
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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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Can I make a collapse/expandable area?
Is it possible to make a collapse/expandable section in a question ?
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Questions with watched tags no longer highlighted?
Why are questions with my watched tags no longer highlighted when viewing the lists of questions (e.g. math stackexchange and mathoverflow)? I just noticed this today and also noticed the question ...
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Are you sure you want to leave this page?
This has never happened before on SE, not even earlier today in a different stack.
I wrote a question and clicked "post." Immediate pop-up "Are you sure you want to leave this page?&...
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In search of a possibly deleted question
I'm trying to find a possibly deleted question. I don't remember the user. Is this possible?
It was a question about finding
$$\operatorname{E}\left[g(X)\right]$$
If my memory serves me correctly
$$g(...
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How do I view latex source code in answers or questions as rendered form or images?
Is it normal to see only the latex source code in questions and answers where they are typed?
My perspective:
Is there any way to render this into images or some form of intelligible format that I ...
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Need of a thread listing software for studying mathematics
There is been a considerable amount of questions on the mainsite relating to softwares used in plotting in complex functions. Search
As a solution to remove the amount of redundancy on the site, I ...
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MathJax parentheses that span multiple lines
In math.stackexchange.com, how do I get parentheses to span multiple lines?
For example, in
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x \neq y := x \neq x_{j+1}\\
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\Big(y \not \in \textsf{FV}(A) := x_j \not \in \textsf{FV}(A)\\
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List of secret hats during Winter Bash 2021
Apparently a buried penny is a secret hat. I'm not sure what its criteria is. Also, is there a list of secret hats for this year's winter bash? Do the hats change every year?
2014 list:
Winter Bash ...
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How do I write ultimate equality in mathjax?
The above symbol is referred to as ultimate equality in Tristan Needham's Visual Differential Geometry. How do I write it in latex?
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Did the user activity page change format?
Here's the sample screenshot from the original announcement (nearly seven years ago) of the (then) new activity page. This is what I remember it looking like as recently as yesterday:
Here's what it ...
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Improve similar problem searching system
This is a problem which has happened many times when I want to ask a question on MSE. After I finish the title of my question, there'll be a Similar questions box to offer me some similar question. If ...
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How can I use q.uiver.app output in math.se?
I made this annotated expression using q.uiver.app and would like to know how I can embed it in a math.se post.
q.uiver.app gives me the following LaTeX and also mentions I should include ...
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Solving problems through answering my own question [duplicate]
I recently found some solution to some integral, I want to share some methods that may help people who are new to calculus. Can I make my thread kind of like a tutorial, or is that off-topic or will ...
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Why was a question proactively removed from Hot Network Questions even though it never appeared there in the first place?
I'm coming here following this question on Meta Stack Exchange.
In that post, a user highlighted this question on the main site, which shows a timeline entry for removing the question from Hot Network ...
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Mathjax rendering incorrectly in edit preview.
Update: I later found that anything I edited on Main didn't render properly in Preview. On a whim, I de-activated the LocalCDN plugin I installed after seeing a-super-easy-way-to-speedup-mathjax-...
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Protocol for cross posting when question did not receive any response.
Recently I've posted a question asking for help to find a numerical optimization algorithm for a given problem.
Here is the question Optimizing filtering and thresholding parameter before integrating ...
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How to respond to comments and answers
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Meaning of “modulo the identity matrix”
Sorry if this is the wrong place for these Qs; I'm new to math.stackexchange and I don't know where ...
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Questions, answers, and ... articles?
I just noticed that where user profile pages used to display (something like) "view all questions and answers," they now say "view all questions, answers, and articles" (emph. mine)...
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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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