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The question Does doing mathematics make you more intelligent? was closed, but 13 minutes after closing there was an answer posted.

I suppose this is a bug, and not a feature of the software.

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Zev Chonoles' answer is correct. – Jarrod Dixon♦ Apr 17 '12 at 2:28
@JarrodDixon: Zev said "One thing" then "I believe that one thing would be out of date." which part is correct? – Asaf Karagila Apr 17 '12 at 5:10
We allow a grace period on for adding answers to closed questions - see this Stack Overflow Meta post for the details. – Jarrod Dixon♦ Apr 17 '12 at 17:14

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I think it might be intended behavior. I remembered that there was a similar occurrence on MO; this meta.SO post is where Andrew Stacey filed the resulting bug report. Apparently the resolution was that

We now block answering after a reasonably large amount of time has gone by.

I can imagine that 13 minutes would qualify. However, I would have thought that, now that SE pages are almost-real-time updating with comments, answers, votes, etc. that the above answer would be out of date and that closure would take effect immediately, without someone having to reload the page.

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Yes, I was aware to the MO threads, but I figured that the software on MO is very outdated and the problem was corrected on SE 2.x versions. – Asaf Karagila Apr 15 '12 at 16:52

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