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Citation Helper v2 - User Script edition!
A few years ago I working with zbMath to create a better interface for our Citation Helper that will allow us better flexibility in formatting and creating links to references.
At the time, SE was ...
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Calculators use in problem solving on MSE
I had posted a answer on MSE today, more specifically: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/5116849/1575260 which needed the usage of a calculator at the end.
I suspect some of the higher-ups discourage ...
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What are site guidelines on editing (possibly old) questions to convert MathJax style/formatting?
What are site guidelines on editing (possibly old) questions to change MathJax style/formatting, including MathJax edits that do not affect the visible output?
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Does the 30-character minimum limit of the anwer discourage mathematical elegance?
I recently encountered a situation where the character limit felt counter-productive to the quality of an answer, specifically regarding geometric or algebraic visualization.
In this question: the ...
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Proof formalizing on the site
I recently asked two questions on SE about formalizing a new proof I accidentally got. The first one was deleted out of Math OverFlow, and the second one was closed out of Math SE as ...
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Generative AI usage in questions
Background information:
What is our policy on AI-generated content?
Do we want a banner regarding AI-generated content?
What is this site’s policy on content generated by generative artificial ...
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How to improve this question?
My question concise, robust name for 0x1000000 asks about certain integers. Specifically I want terminology with certain qualities.
The question was negatively received and then closed for unspecified ...
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Clearing, deleting own's comment
I posted a solution to a puzzle mostly via a link to a document (I know this is not advised). Now I get an enhancement on that solution (plus the original one had a few flaws in some proofs), so while ...
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How much context is required?
I think that most questions ignore the requirement to add context, and in my opinion this is fine, adding context should be optional.
Questions are rarely closed because of the lack of context, ...
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Is there a markdown syntax, which enables us to generate mathematical images?
In order to write questions, one can use $MathJax$ for mathematical formulae, equations, ...
What about images? (I have always used Geogebra for creating mathematical images, but recently I stumbled ...
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"Mathematics done just for fun" and the advice to provide context/motivation for questions
When asking the question Is 7 the only "good" prime number?, I added several tags, including recreational-mathematics. I added that tag, because the motivation for my question is curiosity ...
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requesting my accepted duplicate flags be superseded by a merge
today, I found a 2021 question, 2022 question, and 2023 question on the orthogonal hockey stick identity
$${n\brace k}=\sum_{b=0}^{n-k}k^b{n-1-b\brace k-1}$$
for Stirling numbers of the second kind, ...
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Add original answerer marking
In MSE posts, the author of a question is indicated by a blue rectangle. I think we should introduce a similar marking under the comment section of an answer, indicating the author of the answer. It ...
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Declining number of questions - discussion and further actions
This question is motivated by the concerns expressed in this post, in particular about the declining number of questions on the main site and the reasons for it. For context, the numbers have come ...
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What exactly constitutes a duplicate?
There's this particular user (who shall remain nameless) who has a very high reputation, and many gold tag badges, who, I've noticed, tends to unilaterally close posts in those tags as duplicates. In ...
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