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This tag is used for questions that ask users to discuss an idea, concept, or problem in an abstract way. A discussion question may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and is often subjective. On Meta, you do not need to use community-wiki mode for subjective topics unless you are asking a "poll" question.
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Why does this suggested edit deviate from the original intent?
Here's a list of reasons why I found your edit undesirable.
Changing the title from a statement to a question is a matter of taste. I don't like edits based on taste because they don't make the post …
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For limits-without-lhospital, is the intent to NOT use the definition of the derivative?
Observe that for these questions (among others), the accepted answer uses the definition of the derivative:
Find the limit of $\lim_{x\to0}{\frac{\ln(1+e^x)-\ln2}{x}}$ without L'Hospital's rule
Find …
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How do I contribute to the site?
Looking at the most popular tags I can suggest:
calculus *
probability *
algebra-precalculus
combinatorics *
geometry
elementary-number-theory *
functions
trigonometry
Where a * means that some of …
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What to do with a suggested edit that seems to come from the original author but on a differ...
Edit in question
Normally, I would reject this for being "against intent" but it seems like the same person because it is unlikely that someone else would have found the answer within 4 minutes, crea …
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Tag management 2017
We should consider adding combinatorial-optimization as a synonym for discrete-optimization. I know people use discrete optimization to mean combinatorial optimization + integer programming but there …
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Tag management 2017
I think it's silly to have both positive-definite and positive-semidefinite. We don't have a strict-inequality tag. We aren't going to add negative-definite and negative-semidefinite (hopefully).
I d …
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When is it ok to use \newcommand and \DeclareMathOperator?
As some of you may know, you can use \newcommand and \DeclareMathOperator to create new TeX macros. For example, $\DeclareMathOperator{\cosine}{cosine}$$\DeclareMathOperator{\cosine}{cosine}$ allows y …
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Why is this not off-topic on meta?
The bold parts are what make this on-topic:
I have encountered the term derivate standing in for derivative many times in posts. I usually edit the post to say derivative instead. But I am wonderi …
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Answering a question too late
From a purely practical point of view: how you answer an older question might be different than how you answer a new question.
Is frowned upon to do so?
There's nothing frowned upon. The only an …
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Why was this question downvoted?
Reading the question it is entirely unclear what the asker knows and does not know. For instance: do they know what $\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z}$ is? If you read the comments under your answer, it would se …
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