Questions tagged [answers]
For questions about answers on the main site. Consider using the accepted-answer tag if the question is about an answer that has been accepted.
342 questions
8 votes
1 answer
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User-Info disappeared
It seems that the user profiles of responders currently do not appaear at the sites. Is it done on purpose? If yes, what is the idea behind that? greetings callculus ,
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-7 votes
1 answer
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Recent answer in MSE not appearing among my answers
Find equation of two circles... Unable to view a recent answer among Answers in my profile.. How to remedy the situation? Thanks.
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1 vote
2 answers
201 views
Are really complicated closed-forms good answers?
Many questions ask for whether a finite summation has a closed form formula. They can often be answered in the following way: Yes, a closed form formula exists. The following papers show all ...
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25 votes
4 answers
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Can somebody explain why my answers keep getting deleted (by the same people)?
3 out of my 5 answers (yes, I'm new) on MSE were deleted. In each deletion, there were the same 2 people that deleted my answers (I won't mention them here for privacy). One of my answers were silly, ...
-1 votes
1 answer
155 views
How to choose an answer
Today I asked this question: Alternative methods to evaluate $\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{1 + e^x} \, \mathrm{d}x$ I am not sure what to do in this case. There have been lots of great answers posted ...
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-1 votes
2 answers
380 views
How authoritative are Stack Exchange answers?
Quick and practical question. Question I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, because I'm actually referring to all of Stack Exchange and not just the math section, but it also ...
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0 votes
1 answer
118 views
Quoting an answer from a book
Suppose a user asks a question. Let's assume that I come across a book XYZ that gives an elegant working for a similar question. Do I then write in the comments something like Refer to XYZ which has ...
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-2 votes
5 answers
454 views
How long should an answer be at minimum? [duplicate]
What is the minimal length that an answer should have? I am not asking about technical restrictions, I know that very short answers (maybe this is detected by a certain amount of characters?) will ...
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-10 votes
1 answer
152 views
Is it possible to ask a question in an answer to a question already on the site
I found a question where the user is studying on the same book I'm using, and has asked a question about something on this book, but he asked only "half a question" about it. I'm interested ...
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-15 votes
1 answer
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Upvoting Good Posts Even if I Don’t Fully Understand Them
Many-a-times, when I come across good or excellent questions or answers I only partially understand or don’t understand at all, I have upvoted them. For example, $(1)$, $(2)$, $(3)$, $(4)$, $(5)$, $(6)...
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2 votes
1 answer
173 views
How should I proceed when the only answer references a highly technical resource I don't understand?
I recently asked this question Why are different operations in mathematics referred to as "convolution"?, and the only answer provided references to a very technical book on 'Fourier ...
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10 votes
1 answer
610 views
What Should I Do if I Found a Simpler Approach to a Question Elsewhere(Other than MSE)?
Yesterday, I came across this question and was trying hard to think about a way to evaluate the integral in a simpler way. I thought for about $15$ minutes, but couldn't find any solution. So, I ...
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-5 votes
1 answer
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Deleting a question that has an answer
Until recently there was a policy that a (possibly weak) question should not be deleted, once a well formulated answer had been posted. The reasoning was that deleting the question also causes the ...
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15 votes
0 answers
584 views
What should I do if my question is based on an incorrect assumption but has an answer?
Recently, I asked a question, and someone provided an answer. After further study, I realized that my question was based on an incorrect interpretation of a definition, which made both my question and ...
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-6 votes
1 answer
262 views
Can I use math formulas from this community in open source non-CC projects?
I am planning on using some math formulas I get from this community in open source projects with a basically completely free use no attribution needed license subject to how close to that license ...
