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How to search on this site?
Approach0
Searching for a specific formula is often rather difficult. A tool which is very suitable for this is the Approach0 search engine.
Some basic information can be found in Guide for New Users (...
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Announcing a third-party search engine for Math StackExchange.
I appreciate your work and am looking forward to using it; it seems that I am not alone in this, given that your post currently has 12 - 1 votes. There is one problem though: starting by the end of ...
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How to search for a formula/expression
See my side-project, it is an open-source math-aware similarity search engine.
http://approach0.xyz
I am hoping someone interested can join and form a community to push this project forward, this is ...
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What is the best way to search for a math equation on the internet?
See my side-project, it is developing its indices currently.
http://approach0.xyz
I will publish its first release when the entire math StackExchange is indexed.
Also, I am hoping someone ...
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Announcing a third-party search engine for Math StackExchange.
It seemed to me as a good idea to make a CW answer where Math.SE users could add the problems they stumbled upon while using this search engine. (EDIT: And we can also use this chatroom for discussing ...
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How to search math terms/notations accurately and efficiently? Could some experienced users summarize some tips here?
One thing which we should keep in mind is that duplicates might be useful. They improve the chance that another user will find the question, since with each duplicate another copy with somewhat ...
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Why is the user search so out of date?
You were only looking at the reputation earned during the current month:
Click on the "all" to get cumulative reputation (modulo caching):
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Finding protected questions
Users with 10K reputation can access the Protected Questions list.
You can find this by going through the "review" link in the top bar, then choose the "Tools" tab and then the "stats" subtab, and ...
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How to search on this site?
Lists of questions
There are also various lists of questions which might help when searching for some topic (some of them generated by the Stack Exchange software, some of them created manually).
If ...
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Is there any way to see my deleted questions or answers?
EDIT: Since now (January 2022) any user can get a list of all their deleted questions (answers), this answer is no longer relevant if you want to find one of your own deleted posts. I will still leave ...
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How to search on this site?
Google
You can simply use Google with the restriction to this domain, using (in addition to the search query) site:math.stackexchange.com. (Of course, you can also use any other search engine where ...
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How can I find posts that have been answered by two users?
You can use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer for these kind of things.
For Q1, this query lists the questions answered by the two highest reputation users on the site, but you can easily adjust the ...
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Is it possible to prevent substitution in approach0?
Update: \exact queries are supported now.
Example: OR content:$\sin\left(\omega \exact t \right)$
Currently it is not possible. ...
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In search of a possibly deleted question
DISCLAIMER: As you can see, only some of the suggestions I have given below would actually help you to find this specific question. (And some of them only during the next week - after the next update ...
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How to quickly find recent questions with lots of upvotes?
The article "How do I search?" in the help center has a section "Dates" - which explains how to use dates with the operators created: and ...
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See questions recently posed by "high-rep" users
There's nothing in the site search capabilities that would allow this, although the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) would allow you to create a query to achieve this goal. The only caveat here is ...
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Is there any particular way to find the "easy" questions to answer?
Besides browsing specific tags, you can also go to the Unanswered list. You can also filter that list and show only questions that have at least one of a list of tags, for example:
https://math....
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Ordering the questions of a day
If you include created:2018-04-05 in your search query, you see the posts which were created today. You can restrict it to questions using created:2018-04-05 is:q. (Naturally, if you try the same ...
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How to search on this site?
Built-in-search
The site has built-in search engine - the search bar is near the top of the site. Notice that after you get to search results a link with "Advanced Search Tips" become ...
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How to see the questions posted in a particular month in a particular year in a specific tag
For example, I want to see all questions posted in sequences-and-series in September month of 2016.
You can used built-in-search for this. The modifier created:2016-09-01..2016-10-01 returns only ...
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How to search for users based on reputation and badge?
We can go to stack exchange data explorer. There is a script for top users without gold badge.
Below is the list of top users without gold badge on our site as of September 24, 2017.
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How to find questions originating from papers?
I often suggest JSTOR's free Register & Read access option for papers that are otherwise behind paywalls. In any case this query:
is:question url:jstor.org
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How can I search questions asked a specific period of time?
There is information regarding this in the How do I search? page.
You can do the following searches, for example:
created:2014..2017
will return all questions which were created from 2014-01-01 ...
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How to search for postings of user X with tag Y?
The search-query is
[tag-name] user:UserNumber
for all posts of the user with number UserNumber in the tag tag-name.
If you want to restrict to question or ...
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Access to question posts from previous years.
Well, use search modifiers.
Specifically, created:2016 or lastactive:2016 should do the trick in this case.
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How to skip directly to page x of n in a long list of search results?
There is no way in the interface, but you can edit the URL directly.
For example, search for "group" and click to get to the second page then the URL is something like this
...
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How can I find an answer when I accidentally closed the window?
The site does have a feature to automatically save drafts of posts. They will be displayed again if you navigate to the relevant page.
Thus you really need to find the question first. Then there you ...
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Is there a way to review all my questions that have been deleted by the community?
This has been implemented for 10k+ users: Enable searching with deleted:1 for 10k users (meta.SE).
So you can search for user:me deleted:1 is:q to see your deleted questions and for user:me deleted:1 ...
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Should we add external searches in some help pages about search?
Per this request I've added the following paragraph at the help center article about search:
This article covers the basics on the built-in search. Please take a look at a community meta post on how ...
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