Timeline for Can we ask about code in math.stackexchange?
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| Jun 8, 2019 at 14:52 | comment | added | MJD | I think this hits the nail on the round flat part. | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 19:57 | comment | added | user645636 | Aka don't ask about PARI/GP and forsquarefree, or isprime, or sqrtint, or logint, etc. | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 1:54 | comment | added | John Hughes | BTW, particularly for novice questions, I often include some code with my answer, so that they can see the answer "working in practice" (and so that I can point out some subtleties as we go from math to code, like "don't test against floating-point zero"). | |
| Jun 1, 2019 at 21:59 | comment | added | J.G. | The tricky area is when the questioner doesn't know whether their mistake was in the mathematics or the code. When this happens, I prefer to err on the side of allowing it even if coding was the issue, if only because "actually, your maths was right after all" is often the right answer to code-free questions that we accept. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 12:07 | comment | added | davidlowryduda Mod | This is exactly how I've been thinking of it as well. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 8:54 | vote | accept | SHM | ||
| May 27, 2019 at 8:17 | comment | added | SHM | Thank you, that makes sense. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 8:15 | history | answered | Asaf KaragilaMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |