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Why can't I post a question?

Just to give this an answer to satisfy the software, I comment the main substance of my comment: Respectfully, posting a random sequence, or some simple formula with a cube root in it, does not quali …
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How to obtain the bibtex item for a question with a program?

As Brock Adams mentioned in the comments, this is asked and answered at: How to obtain the bibtex item for a question with a program or http request?
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How to formulate a question for a Mathoverflow forum?

That is off-topic, as is asking for correctness of claimed proofs about any famous conjecture, especially if, as I guess, it's a simple proof and the link is at viXra or ResearchGate or Google Drive/D …
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Rep being recalculated: Qs get +10 now?

So now StackExchange thinks questions are worth +10 rep again. Here is a comment where a StackOverflow user noticed their rep jump by ~6k. Just now I was presented with a banner announcing this chang …
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dispute -100 rep decision

The application of a -100 reputation cost was not a decision made by people, it is automatic in the system, as pointed out in the comments. It is also entirely possible that the people who voted to de …
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Is there a penalty for merely looking at a question, comments and an answer?

To summarise the conversation in the comments, it seems Thomas may have accidentally downvoted some answers while browsing on a phone (I've done the same, especially when the screen reflows because of …
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Writing a bar on top of a number

To give the question an answer so it can be accepted: you can use $\overline{...}$ to get a bar over any letter or digit or group thereof.
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Requests for reopen and undelete votes for closed and deleted questions

[No response from the OP, so I will leave this lie. I'm not that keen that I'm going to chase it up] The question How to sort differential equation list? seems to me to be not uninteresting. The orig …
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Why is this? (searching by filter)

From https://mathoverflow.net/help/searching : OR operator To combine results from multiple tags, separate the tag names (enclosed in square brackets) with the word "or": [widgets] or [geegaws] retur …
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Editing old question, can't submit as title is too long

In the end, the title could be rephrased just slightly to get in under the limit. But in the future, I guess it would be suitable to summarise titles that are too long on posts that need editing, but …
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Editing old question, can't submit as title is too long

I'm editing Is there a canonical map from the cohomology of orbifold Chiral de Rham on an orbifold to the cohomology of Chiral de Rham on a crepant resolution? as there was a broken arXiv Front link ( …
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