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Can I publish your answer?
Lets say that I build up parts of a chain of reasoning leading to a publishable research discovery by posting one or more questions on http://math.stackexchange.com (or any other public Q/A-board), ...
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Having to log in to see the Hot | Week | Month
I don't like that the Hot | Week | Month feature no longer appears unless I log in.
I don't like the big welcome box taking up most of the screen unless I log in.
I object to having to log in to ...
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“You must have 20 reputation on The Stack Exchange Network to talk here.”
Whenever I try to enter chat it tells me, "You must have 20 reputation on The Stack Exchange Network to talk here". The same thing happens if I go into chat from some other Stack Exchange site.
I ...
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Do we have or should we have a guide for making good questions?
This question was made and I asked the usual:
You should provide more info: What have you tried? What are the definitions? What book are you reading?
The user replied me by saying that he tried ...
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Why does my profile show an account on Judaism SE?
I do not have any account on Judaism SE. What do I need to remove that from my profile?
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math.se feeder does not load all questions selected for more than one tag
First of all, trying to read or even browse all of 'linear algebra' on math.se is somewhat like trying to drink from a fire hydrant. It's too much information.
So, I solved that problem by selecting ...
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Number of helpful flags in elections
A question I had about the "helpful flags"-field in the ongoing elections:
Would it be an idea to not only list the number of flags deemed helpful, but also the total number of flags (or the number ...
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Should questions on (matrices) and (matrix-equations) be also tagged as (linear-algebra)?
Recently the following text was added to linear algebra tag-excerpt:
For questions specifically concerning matrices, use the (matrices) tag. For questions specifically concerning matrix equations, ...
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probability density function [closed]
Suppose Y is a random variable pdf $f(y)=ky$ , $y=3/n,6/n,9/n...,3n/n$
Find the value of the constant $k$ and write down Y's cdf.
Find simple general expressions for EY, VarY, P($Y=3/2$) and ...
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Numbered lists interspersed with commentary. [duplicate]
Sometimes I want to intersperse commentary into my lists. For example.
Thus, it holds that
blah, and that
blurg,
and noting that bloop, thus also that
blipple.
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Is it ok to provide a concept I idealized and ask if there's a mathematical field that works with it?
Sometimes, I have ideas about things, and I'm quite sure that there's probably some mathematical field that deals with such a concept. Is it OK to make a question providing a sample of this idea, and ...
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Sharing a link to a question with another Math.SE user
Currently there seems to be no functionality available to share a link to an unanswered or already answered question with another Math.SE user.
Indeed, if the question has no answers, then scrolling ...
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Avoiding duplicates
I was wondering if I could ask a question on meta whether some question is on the site or not. I'm asking this since sometimes one might ask a duplicate question which he/she searched for and didn't ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to add a question to the watchlist?
Is there a way to add a question to a kind of a watchlist in order to get notifications when e.g. there is a new answer or a new comment posted there? I would like to use this, for example, for a ...
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2answers
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Privacy settings
Is it possible to edit privacy settings on SE? For example, is it possible for me to be able to make it so that people can't see the questions I ask when they view my profile?
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1answer
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How about 5 Moderators?
It seems that five candidates are somewhat receiving a distinguishably large amount of votes. In consideration of the demands of the position, and that these five certainly would like the position, ...
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2answers
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How can I get to the place where I can vote?
I would like to vote in the primary and election. At present I don't see any place where we can actually vote.
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1answer
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Unable to upvote comments when reviewing close votes
Whenever I am reviewing the close votes on the main site, I often (perhaps always) encounter the issue that I am unable to upvote comments to the question from the review screen, but have to open up ...
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Question about PSQ and answering them
I understand that there has been a lot of debate about PSQ's and I believe, we have decided to leave a comment explaining that the OP should some thought on the problem so it is not an "isloated ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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The return key returns
I recently found out that on mathoverflow.net, when keying in comments, pressing the return/enter key doesn't submit the comment; rather it does the most sensible thing, i.e., goes to the next line. I ...
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1answer
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Elections: How candidates advance from the primary phase to the election phase?
I have a question on how the top $10$ primary candidates will proceed to the election phase. The election page says
After 4 days, the top 10 candidates based on primary vote score proceed onward ...
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How are serial upvoters looked upon?
There are several reasons why someone would serially upvote another account. I will list some examples, ranging from good faith to pure evil.
Gratitude. A user encounters a particularly enlightening ...
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1answer
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Why can I vote more than positions
It seems unreasonable that I can vote more number of candidates than the posts available like in recent election.
I am requesting feature request to adjust this.
It is reasonable that while voting I ...
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1answer
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Using TikZ on math.stackexchange
The title pretty much says it all:
How can I use TikZ when writing my math questions on this site?
I have written out my question in LaTeX using the TikZ and it took me quite some time, now I ...
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MathOverflow 2.0 is a-comin'!
Not a question; more of a notification. For those who are unaware, MathOverflow is upgrading to the "new" StackExchange platform.
A recent update on meta.mathoverflow.net:
Anton Geraschenko 3 ...
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1answer
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Upvotes without getting the points (with 115 daily rep). Bounty related?
Sorry for a technical question (I've already seen the answers to this and this). Though I have earned 200 daily rep already, I have also set a 100 points bounty, so that somehow the counter stopped at ...
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Should the description of the bounty page be changed?
I recently made a 500 reputation bounty on this question. As I was really interested in getting an answer I crossposted it on MathOverflow. On MathOverflow I got an answer and for completeness reasons ...
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1answer
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Why does one get more upvotes without getting the corresponding points? [duplicate]
I am getting more up votes on one of my answers and I am not getting the corresponding points! For example, I have 16 up votes with only 80 points. Can someone explain this? Thank you.
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Is it ok to ask a question for a specific MSE user via MSE?
I'm reading Peter Smith's Teach Yourself Logic. Peter is a MSE user.
I wonder if it's ok to ask a question directed to him - on MSE. I know that the user can be contacted via e-mail, but making the ...
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What would be an acceptable way of opening a question about this topic?
I have often (on the math.se main page) encountered the idea that, "A structure must never be viewed in isolation, but always as an object of some category." This doesn't make sense to me, since:
We ...
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Could maths.SE use an appeals committee?
I spent several years as the arbiter for the Croydon Chess Club. In the event that an arbiter's decision was disputed, the decision could be appealed. If a decision were to be appealed:
The ...
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Should we have a FAQ for false proofs?
Should we have a question listing known false proofs, and other fallacies? Like an official FAQ version of 113? Then for all instances of questions like 389180, 388435 and so on, we can just redirect ...
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Wrong timing for comment editing blocking?
I just wanted to edit a comment of mine that was shown as "3 min ago". When I hit the button to commit the edit, I was told that editing is only possible for 5 minutes. OK, so I took too long to edit? ...
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Only 300 reputation points needed to nominate as moderator?
In the nomination phase, any community member in good standing with
more than 300 reputation may nominate themselves to be a community
moderator.
300 reputations points seems ridiculously low ...
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When does a meta proposal become “official policy”?
When does a proposal at meta become "official policy"? Especially in light of the moderators elections I would like to know which role moderators play in this process.
@AlexBecker comment, I mean ...
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What is Math.SE?
Disclaimer: This question is not about PSQs, or "Problem Statement Questions". Rather it is about what users want Math.SE to be. I bring up PSQs to frame the issue.
Background: Recently there has ...
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How do I type those complex mathematical formula? [duplicate]
How to type integration and parenthesis within bigger parenthesis and all that huge math stuff?
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1answer
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Permanent flag-ban without warning. [closed]
I've flagged some posts and comments and nothing happened.
Edit 1. An update after correspondence with the The Stack Exchange Team about my flag-ban:
As people thinks here (Permanent flag-ban ...
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Issue uploading images
I encountered an issue today while uploading an image related to my answer to this question. $\pi$ from the unit circle, $\sqrt 2$ from the unit square but what about $e$?
When I clicked on the icon ...
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Is there a problem in editing questions?
I'd like to ask if there is a problem in editing questions that look hard to read or lack an answer for many days?
I'm asking this cause some people think this is "ridiculous". I'm not afraid to ...
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A formula can't display properly in comment only
The term $\chi_{{}^{*}P}({}^{*}r)$ can display properly in the question, but when I paste it in a comment, it become something like:
which is the same as \chi_{{}^{}P}({}^{}r), when $$ eliminated.
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Re-evaluation of actions when a moderator resigns?
I just found that there were an unusual lot of suggested flags in the review queue. Only after going through it, I noticed that especially one case was weird: The question, answer and initial flagging ...
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“Newest” page not updating
The "newest" page on the main site is currently not updating for me. It previously displayed a question about 10 minutes old, which I answered, but after refreshing the newest page the question has ...
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Has this question been asked before: Graphs of functions we should all know
I recall as a student when I asked TA's for help on problems (calculus and analysis), they often had an idea of how to approach problems (usually regarding limits, sequences, integration) before even ...
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PSQ and the FAQ
There's a lot of talk about PSQ (problem statement questions).
It was recently suggested in this question that PSQ should be an issue at the upcoming election.
From the aforementioned question:
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1answer
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Is it possible to make a reference request within MSE questions/answers?
I've seen questions such as:
What are the best real analysis books that take a standard approach to some of the basic theorems.
Is it ok to make a reference-request question asking about the ...
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Why My question was closed, [Reopened] [RECLOSED again]?
In my question I ask for practical tips for the mathematical research practice, if not personal,I look for some articles/websites/books/guides/faq related, or if was already asked on Math.SE, the link ...
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How to search for a comment left by a particular user on my post?
What is the efficient way to search for a comment left by a particular user on my post? I can go back into my activity/comments in my profile page and dig it up. But this comment was left by a user ...
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Delete My Account
I would appreciate if my account could be deleted. From other meta posts it seems that a moderator needs to do it. Thanks. I really see no reason whatsoever for not being able to do this ourselves ...
