Questions tagged [self-answer]
Questions also answered by the user asking, easily marked by the shaded user card attached to the answer.
66 questions
-7 votes
1 answer
173 views
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
1 answer
158 views
I answered a more general version of my own question. How should I proceed?
A week or two ago I asked this question, When does $n! = a\cdot 2^a$. In which, I proposed a question, added where the question came from and where the question could go, and then answered it and ...
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-3 votes
1 answer
102 views
Seeking Guidance Initially, but Successfully Proved Later
I posted a one question on Math Stack Exchange, completed most of the process, but got stuck. Later, I figured it out and proved the question. Should I delete my post, finish the solution or Should I ...
user1285841
20 votes
2 answers
1k views
Should I ask my doubt and later answer it on my own?
So I was studying numerical methods from my class notes and got this doubt which I had asked here. My notes are short and quick so they skip over a lot of detail. Later, I followed a textbook and my ...
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22 votes
1 answer
693 views
Prompt OP to answer their own question?
Sometimes I find questions (e.g. this one) where after some back-and-forth in the comments OP answers their own question and appends their final answer to their question. In the interest of minimizing ...
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15 votes
1 answer
1k views
Is there some other unstated issue with my question or answer? [duplicate]
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Taxi distance count to all lattice points at specified distance from the lattice origin and of a specified dimensionality? I was challenged ...
user1193068
4 votes
1 answer
235 views
Should I erase this question
I asked a question about series summations and my verification attempts here. Later, I solved the question with the summation limits, i.e., my verification code in python did not take all indices into ...
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18 votes
4 answers
972 views
Posting 'Solved' Questions
I recently created a nice olympiad problem on the invariance principle, and I thought about posting it on Math Stack Exchange. However, I was unsure about it as the community guidelines have not ...
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13 votes
1 answer
487 views
Should/Can solution-verification be posted as self-answers?
In this answer a user suggests that "answers should almost always be posted as answers”, which I quote If the question exists elsewhere on the site, and you have an answer for it, it should go ...
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1 vote
0 answers
266 views
Question about mathexchange posts
It is stated in the blog that you can post answers to your own questions (and that it is actually encouraged). Thus I am considering in part to use math exchange to post answers to some questions I ...
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0 votes
0 answers
71 views
Solving problems through answering my own question [duplicate]
I recently found some solution to some integral, I want to share some methods that may help people who are new to calculus. Can I make my thread kind of like a tutorial, or is that off-topic or will ...
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2 votes
0 answers
146 views
can one ask a question one came up with oneself and one knows the answer to
I recently did so on mathematics site, and, someone kindly commented: "why do you ask if you know?". I am rather new here and I certainly try to behave like a good citizen. In fact, I asked ...
2 votes
1 answer
105 views
Accepting own answer if there are other, good answers that don't answer the question as intented.
I recently posted the following reference request: click The question got two very good answers and both answeres made an effort to explain things well. But, in the question I asked for a reference of ...
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15 votes
0 answers
755 views
What can I do to improve this question?
This self-answered question has $5$ downvotes . Metamorphy commented that 'Still the question should have a context and not just a problem statement' after which I added an attempt. After discussion ...
user730361
4 votes
0 answers
138 views
I have the answer to a question I wrote that was deleted
About a year ago I wrote a question and it was immediately deleted because I didn't provide enough context. But I now would be able to answer it. I saw on some of the meta questions that you can ...
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