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Is it appropriate to ask for references and point to a blog with the same question
I wonder if the community would find it appropriate if I ask a question like
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Is this or that known? It would be interesting for this and that reason. For details see our blog "blah" where we ask ...
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soft-question tag for discussing mathematical best-practices
I asked a question about where people could store slides for future reference. As a discussion of best-practices in the Mathematical profession, I thought it was appropriate for the soft-question tag ...
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How to merge old mathoverflow account?
I know that this question has been asked and answered here: How can I log in into my old mathoverflow account? I have e-mailed the stackoverflow admins twice, but nothing has happened for 48h now. ...
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Too large font in the question names
Previously much more questions could fit one page in the question list. Currently the font is giant and the information is much less dense.
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Is this question research level?
I would like to pose a problem on Mathoverflow, and wanted to see if it's research level:
Take $X=(0,1)^n.$ Fix points $p,q$ s.t. $\text{dist}_n(p,q)=\sqrt{n}.$ Classify smooth regular foliations of $...
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Gaining points for posting
How do I earn 50 points to comment if I am not allowed to comment or post? So my problem is as described as far you can see.
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Is this question about partition numbers too broad/vague?
Here's my proposed question (edit: now posted) (edit 2: posted version now edited):
I have found an algorithm for counting partitions, and I've been able to express it into a mathematical formula, $P(...
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Asking if a post about a mathematical characterization of gravitational geons can be potentially interesting for the main site MathOverflow
I would like to ask about if a question about the following subject can be potentially interesting and on topic on MathOverflow. I would like to ask on the main site of MathOverflow about the ...
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Hinting votes for CW contributions
I would like to learn about opinions about visually indicating votes for contributions to community wiki; what I have in mind is something analogous to the green button in the "menue-line" ...
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Is this partial differential equation on topic for Mathoverflow?
I came across this differential equation. I'm not sure if it's research level, but I think it might be:
$$u\frac{\partial}{\partial u}\left(u\frac{\partial f}{\partial u}\right) + v\frac{\partial}{\...
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"overestimates topoi" and research level
I wonder now and then, why this question is still open
Did Grothendieck overestimate topoi?
Usually, MO's members tend to be very strict about what is and what isn't a good question.
But why is this ...
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Unable to delete this post
I have been wanting to delete this post for quite sometime. Unfortunately a user already answered and my reputation is so low that I can’t accept or delete it.
Note my original question is nothing ...
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Discouraging (Some) Upvotes
I'm tagging this as "discussion", not as a feature request, because I am quite agnostic about whether it's a good idea.
That said: My subjective impression is that lately a lot of very bad/...
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Can I ask for advice or opinions about the choice of a variant of a theory?
Basically, I have 2 versions of a theory. This is like having two competing theories of complex numbers, one where $i^2=-1$ and the other where $j^2=1$ (hyperbolic numbers) or extending reals with $+\...
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Why did my profile picture disappear?
I discovered few days ago that my profile picture is gone, had to reupload it.
Did anybody else encounter this? Do you know the reason?
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I want to answer a closed question
Please reopen this question:
A problem of an infinite number of balls and an urn
I have a nice answer.
(Added (DR): now re-opened. Please note there are ten deleted nonsense answers, which I imagine ...
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Can I delete one of my posts that has been closed as off topic and received an answer with positive up-vote?
Can I delete one of my posts that has been closed as off topic and received an answer with positive up-vote?
Should I delete all my posts that has been closed as off topic? (with/out answer)
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"Voting corrected" seems incomplete
A few days ago, I was surprised to see a sudden increase in rep of 80 points in the space of a couple minutes. When looking over my profile today, I saw that I had lost 60 points, with the annotation &...
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Would asking this question be permissible on the main site?
I have been working on a problem for days, that I previously mentioned on ComScience StackExchange. The answers were helpful. But, I need more information to develop a polynomial space algorithm.
I ...
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Need details or clarity
I need some help to understand what is unclear with my question A reform of logic to secure naive set theory? and also what details are missing, from other persons perspective.
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Is my question for Math Overflow?
In the first paragraph of Prove or Disprove this Darboux-like sum of a function defined on infinite limit points converges to zero, I state that I do not know whether this is a research question. Is ...
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Potential rendering issue for formulas
when I entered the following
$$\pmb{ \frac{d_+^n}{dx_+^n}}:= \left(1, \frac{d^1}{dx^1},\,\dots,\,\frac{d^{n-2}}{dx^{n-2}},\,1\right)$$
I observed that the defined fraction has an unsharp ...
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Setting up math Q/A site in foreign language
Now that my college shifted to online education because of the coronavirus, I would like to setup a MathOverflow style site in Hungarian where I could post exercises, and students could comment, post ...
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Would introducing an "operations-research" tag be appreciated?
What are your feelings about introducing an operations-research tag?
I was tempted of introducing it but as it OR is also covered by combinatorial-optimization or graph-theory and maybe also other ...
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Would this soft question be appropriate?
A few weeks back on the Math Stack Exchange, I asked this question about "interesting" PDEs. It got (no answers and) some deserved criticism, so I opened a discussion on the Meta there and made some ...
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A questions about "on hold" status of a question and about "closed" status
I have a question that´s been put "on hold". And I have some questions.
Who can see that this question is "on hold"? Can that see all users of the site or even some people who ...
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MO links chopped in gmail pdf viewer
Currently I am preparing the text for a paper (together with two coauthors) where we cite help from MO on two occasions. I am doing this using the cite button. It ...
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Is it bad practice to edit my own question with details from the paper provided in the top answer?
I asked a question and received a helpful answer that showed me work that I did not know how to search for. The answer was a link to the author's paper and some context on its relevance. While I could ...
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reminder for comments/responses
Suppose a user commented on my post and due to some reason I overlooked and then forgot.
As it is my question, the one who responded for my question would not care to write another comment if I do ...
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Should there be Anonymous Comments?
I currently got a downvote for my question Making a Graph Eulerian for Applying TSP Heuristics, but unfortunately the downvoter didn't leave a comment explaining what the motivation was, thus ...
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i can’t log in the ios app
I can’t login the ios app, how to fix this problem? Neither the overflow nor the exchange.
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Would this question be on topic?
I'm independently working on some research, and would like to see if there are any other papers on this topic. Can I ask a question on the main site, with a brief description of my work, to see what ...
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Is this post incompatible with its tags?
Is the following question incompatible with its tags? I really do not understand the reason that some participants voted to closing this question as off topic question:
PhD dissertations that ...
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What if I want to increase bounty by somebody else?
I found an exciting question that somebody gave bounty of 50, and I would like to increase it. Seems there is no way to do it. Why?
Also, I never tried this so I don't know: can I increase my own ...
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"Singular Perturbation" is not among tags
Can I ask MO to define a new tag "Singular perturbation". I did not find this tag among the tag list.
Thank you
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Another close reason: "subsumed"?
This happened few hours ago: the question Series involving gamma function about the sum of a specific series, probably not research level, was followed by another one, Series involving factorials ...
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"Conley index " as a tag
Is there a tag which can be related to methods on Conley index theory?I could not find a tag with this title.
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Difficulties merging accounts
hopefully this is an MO.meta appropriate topic.
I have tried merging two accounts (I created the alternate account one day when I forgot my password and wanted to ask a quick question on mobile) and ...
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Can you suggest some negative point in this post
Can one suggest me some negative points in the following post with several downvote
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/247716/topological-groupoid-structure-on-a-pair-s3-a
Thank you
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Why is this question counted as "off topic"
Why is this question counted as off topic?
Unreasonable application of mathematics to the other areas
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Button for cross posts to/from Math SE
People explained me that it is possible to ask same questions in Math SE and MO, and I did this from time to time. I think it's very important to have this possibility, because often you haven't ...
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Is this question suitable for MO?
I recently posted this question on MO. However, it quickly got downvoted and there was a comment which read that "MO is not for homework."
However, that question was not homework and I had not got ...
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New tags: Functional Data Analysis, Time Series, Functional Time Series
In my opinion there should be at least the following two tags, I couldn't find:
"Time Series",
"Functional Data Analysis".
Since functional data are used more and more and time series as a ...
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Is there a penalty for merely looking at a question, comments and an answer?
Recently I have lost 2 reputation points for merely looking at a question, comments and an answer (1 point for reading the question "Large cardinals in $ZF$ + $DC$ + $AD$, and 1 point for reading ...
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Should there be a separate tag for videos?
Sometimes there are questions about videos, movies, documentaries, etc. (I'll add a small sample below.)
Would it be useful to have a separate tag for this topic? This could possibly help when ...
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Why is this answer about naming deleted?
My answer for Naming in math: from red herrings to very long names has been deleted. According to Why and how are some answers deleted?, the only two relevant reasons are:
commentary on the question ...
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