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Cannot submit question with display math
As per title, it seems that it is not possible to submit a question in which display math (i.e. $$ ... $$) is present.
If you try to ask this question
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur ...
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Unable to post a question due to formatting issues
Why am I getting an error as follows for the post content (after the dashed line)
"Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. Please indent all code by 4 spaces ...
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SE Uploader started to fail. Unable to upload image to this site from notebook
In the last few days, I noticed the Pallette SE Uploader keeps giving a Java error each time I try to upload an image.
I select a cell and click on Image button then choose upload image to ...
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Can I ask about Mathics3 here?
I stumbled upon Mathics3, a free and open-source clone of Mathematica.
It seems to share most of the basic syntax/functions with Mathematica, though I assume some advanced features are not implemented....
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API, APIFunction, and interoperability
What's the difference between the tags api, apifunction, and interoperability? Do we need three distinct tags? Are there others that overlap some of these. Should some be merged?
I assume apifunction ...
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Trouble posting question to website (code formatting)
As you can see in the image, I am not able to post my question to the site, it being flagged for "code that is not properly formatted", even though my question contains no code at all, just ...
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is it ok to use the new LLMFunction in answering questions on this site?
I've just used the new LLMFunction (which will be part of 13.3) to answer a question here.
I assumed this is ok since this is part of Mathematica (now as Paclet, but soon builtin) but wanted to make ...
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What is the actual purpose of mathematica.stackexchange.com? [closed]
It seems to me that I have misunderstood mathematica.stackexchange.com's purposes. I understood two purposes: to teach and to learn. It seems to be a place for ignorant newcomers to Mathematica to ...
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Question regarding user etiquette in answers and comments
Update
Note the OP appears to have deleted the inciting comments.
I vote to close my own question but appreciate very much the comments to date.
Please see this question
In particular, refer to my ...
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How can I upload a video of my solution?
How do I post a video of an animation produced by code to the main site? Here's a minimal example:
Animate[Plot[Sin[x + t], {x, 0, 5}], {t, 0, 10, .01}]
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Looking for the appropriate syntax of a Fox H function
Working a problem on Mathematics Stack Exchange, in a comment fom @Maxim is given the expression that I am even unable to type properly with MathJax (I do not know why but a copy/paste does not ...
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First time poster, struggling to post code
I have been struggling for a half hour to post my question but always getting the same error:
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. Please indent all code by 4 ...
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A question was closed as duplicate when it is only similar, not the same
How to get the centroid of a geographical region? (or: the center of mass of Croatia is in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but where exactly?) was closed as duplicate. It is not. The alleged duplicate is ...
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How does one keep others down voting or deleting answers because they do fast answers to hard problem or answers at all to impossible problems>?
As I said in Fitting an exponential system: "Sometimes, a negative result (i.e., can not be fast or done at all) [needs to given] as the problem is constructed." (I editted my own sentence.)
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Bounty on a question with an unsatisfactory answer
I have just put a bounty on the question Floor function not returning correct value
I wrote there
The existing answer is not satisfactory, as explained in a comment.
I find this issue important. There ...
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Mostly no difference between before and after editing
After I upload a question, then some user (mostly high-level user) edit my question.
But many times I don't see any difference.
I wonder what they edited and why they edit it.
I don't have the ...
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Why was my question about WolframAlpha marked off topic
The original post can be found here: Get WolframAlpha to treat all symbols as variables
There is a tag specifically for WolframAlpha called wolfram-alpha-queries. If this doesn't belong here, to what ...
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Can the deleted post content still be viewed?
There was a question about how to draw this form of straight line x==ty+n, and a friend answered three different drawing methods. I'd like to see again that I haven't seen the post now.
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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To discuss and potentially explicitly prohibit ChatGPT and other AI answers
Context: Informal ban already effective
Meta Stackoverflow and Meta Stackexchange has already been discussing a (temporary?) ban of answers crafted with ChatGPT (SO 421831, SE 384396).
Answers ...
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Mathematica Stackexchange editing toolbar [duplicate]
I have been away for a while, so I preface this question with an apology if it is trivial. In answering there used to be an add on/tool to that would allow Wolfram reference hyperlinks, automate ...
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Announcing upcoming (Wednesday November 30) R&D Q&A on symbolic calculus development
Devendra Kapadia and I are looking forward to hosting the “Q&A with Calculus & Algebra Developers" tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11:00 CT. This follows the "What's new in Calculus & ...
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Strategies for lengthy answers and questions (like this one)
Concerning answers
TL;DR what : It would be interesting to have a template/format/guidelines for presenting lengthy answers.
TL;DR why : To increase the general quality of answers, to guide newcomers ...
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What is the purpose/intention/goal for closing a question
I imagine that this has been asked already but searching here on meta and on google I could not find the deep reasons to why someone votes to close a question. The stack exchange information on vote ...
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Is it possible to append a file to a question on mathematica stackexchange?
Is it possible to append a file to a question on https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
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New meta posts no longer appear in right side of main site
I remember the new mathematica.meta posts used to appear in right side of the main site, but now it's not the case:
↑ Who cares about this?
This makes the mathematica.meta site deserted.
Can the old ...
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Are questions about calling Mathematica in other languages/softwares on-topic?
Recently I voted to close this question because it's about programming in python and I think it's clearly off-topic in this site. But OP of the question just showed me something funny: this question, ...
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Where are my previously bookmarked questions
This seems like such a stupid question. Ugh! but I suddenly cant -- not even to save my own life -- find the list of questions I bookmarked in the past. I bookmarked them by clicking the star below ...
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Should we make No-Front-End Wolfram Language questions explicitly on-topic? Are they?
On the Help center > Asking > What topics can I ask about here? one can read
Mathematica Stack Exchange is for users of the software Mathematica
developed by Wolfram Research, as well as ...
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How do I search in Mathematica SE with context ticks in the search bar?
Frequently I want to search for information on MMA.SE about symbols that are referred to by their full context. An example is System`Private`ArgumentsWithRules.
But, searching for System`Private`...
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Rare Q&A "Visualization and Graphics" session from Wolfram R&D, some are members of this community
In a rare virtual event, Wolfram R&D developers (some are old-timers, who also are members of this community) will go live for Q&A session about one of the most popular topics Visualization ...
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What's the appropriate method to share notebooks and packages in this community?
I want to ask a question that concerns a moderately simple but long code. I think that it, placed all inside the question itself, would clutter the message and make the post quite unreadable. How can ...
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What's the difference between [error-messages] and [error-tracking]?
Today I changed a tag from error-tracking to warning-messages (née error-messages, error). Then I did some looking into them. Neither error-tracking or warning-messages have tag wikis and both are ...
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Is there a way to filter out closed questions?
It seems that closed questions can still be edited, which is kind of annoying since edits make questions pop up in my view as active. The most egregious example I've come across is An extension to the ...
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Is it acceptable to post code in unreadable form? (i.e Notebook boxes not Raw Input Form)
The offence
There seem to be a significant amount of new people posting code that looks like this
a = (E^(-2 Abs[\[Gamma] - z Cos[\[Theta]]]^2) \!\(
\*UnderoverscriptBox[\(\[Sum]\), \(j = 0\), \(m\)]\(...
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I don't agree that it's easy to categorize user's problems as math problems
I note this question is going to close by the Mathematic question(not a Mathematica). I think it is a function of Mathematica to try or practice with MMA when learning Mathematic. We can't simply ...
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How to convert Greek symbols to readable ones when posting here? web site is gone
I've used to use http://steampiano.net/msc/ to convert tGreek Mathematica symbols when pasting here so they are readable. Now it is gone. See posting-equations-with-subscripts-and-greek-symbols for ...
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I can't submit my question
I wrote a question, but the site won't let me submit it, giving me the following error message:
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. Please indent all code by 4 ...
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Where in the world is J.M?
He is (was) one of the most active and highly respected users on this site, and a beloved moderator. A while ago, he faced some health issues and there was a fundraising to help him deal with it. ...
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The rule of 5 for accepting answers
There are some users who never accept any answers no matter how good the replies are. I am sure you all know that and it's not difficult to compile a list based on previous behaviors. What's even ...
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Jointly Write Large Answer
The question Background removal with hair, in my opinion, is unanswerable. Most image processing questions seem to result in finicky, specialized code. Moreover, image processing questions seem to ...
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Questions that provide code that runs with errors
Can someone, please, try to check who's right in this post?
Selecting Plot for Locator
I maintain that the OP is problematic, as I am running the commands given and I always get errors. I have ...
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Poorly written questions that get answers
There are various questions -and I think that the number is increasing as of late- in which the authors do not provide the code that they tried and failed and they do not give any description of what ...
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On answering 'Code Please' questions
If this is more appropriate for discussion in a chat room, that's fine, I just don't know how to use the SE interface to get there.
People ask questions effectively asking for someone to write code ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Being blocked from flagging without any warning
I have been blocked from flagging due to getting multiple declines.
I did not expect that having different point of views with the moderators will lead to be blocked from flagging questions.
Moreover, ...
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Objection to systematic down vote to all questions of a user
I have gotten down vote on almost all of my questions at once!
How should I inform the moderators to check this sabotage and give me the lost reputation points back?
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How can I get back an upvote for a comment under a question?
I have given an up vote to an incorrect comment under one of my questions. I click on in to take it back but that does not work. How can I take back my upvote to a comment where there is no downvote ...
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Encouraging newcomers who make "simple mistakes": good policies?
Motivation: I think it's good to encourage newcomers to MMA and MMA SE to continue participating here as they continue to learn Mathematica—especially when their first questions are closed for being a ...
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What is the benefit of a large number of points other than privileges on this site?
Two comments on a question today (Horrible Times x) mentioned "if you need the points" got me wondering about the real world benefit of points (other than having more privileges on this site)...
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