Timeline for What tricky mathematical questions are on topic here?
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| Jul 13, 2017 at 18:22 | history | edited | Gareth McCaughanMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | link to followup |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 13:15 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan Mod | I said "puzzly" rather than "puzzling" for a reason. I don't mean difficult, I mean puzzle-like. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 13:10 | comment | added | n_plum | "Quite puzzly" does not mean it is a puzzle. Something that is a puzzle and something that is puzzling are not the same thing necessarily. A puzzle could/should be puzzling, but something that's puzzling is not always a puzzle. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 13:08 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan Mod | Part of the point is to pin down what #1 means. Some questions in textbooks are actually quite puzzly, so "this could be found in a textbook" isn't a fatal blow. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 13:06 | comment | added | n_plum | I think at the end of the day it comes down to: 1) Is this a puzzle? (hopefully uniquely created) 2) Or is this something you could find in a textbook. - 1) Being on topic 2) Being off topic | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 13:03 | answer | added | Rand al'ThorMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:50 | answer | added | Gareth McCaughanMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:43 | answer | added | Gareth McCaughanMod | timeline score: -5 | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:37 | answer | added | Gareth McCaughanMod | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:34 | history | asked | Gareth McCaughanMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |