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Apr 13, 2017 at 12:21 history edited CommunityBot
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Feb 16, 2015 at 14:01 history edited Ron Gordon CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 13, 2015 at 12:08 comment added quid Yes, I mean certain "hints" among others. I agree that the CAS situation has some specifics to it. Yet, then I do not see how the situation would be helped concerning the (legitimate) points you raise if such information were provided in CW or as a comment instead.// Given your comment on OP it seems though that I misunderstood your position a bit. Sorry.
Feb 13, 2015 at 12:01 comment added Ron Gordon @quid: quite true, and I have seen many many instances of that as well. (And, to the purveyors of such "correct" nonsense, I have to explain that up and downvotes do not indicate correctness but usefulness.) That said, there is a special perniciousness to some purely CAS-derived results that are clearly the result of a fixed algorithm. I tried to illustrate this in my answer here, and I imagine there are many more examples. On the other hand, human-written "answers" I think you mean include those that provide hints based on ideas not fully worked out.
Feb 13, 2015 at 11:53 comment added quid Mutatis mutandis the very same objections could be raised against many a human-written answer on this site that while theoretically correct are so misleading that they are simply wrong.
Feb 13, 2015 at 9:36 history answered Ron Gordon CC BY-SA 3.0