Questions tagged [questions]
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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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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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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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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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What should I do, if anything, to make this question more focused?
I am rather confused as to why this question was closed. It seems to me at least to be very easy to understand, and in fact I received the type of answer I was expecting.
My first thought was that ...
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In search of a lost question
A while ago (don't remember when) I gave an answer to a question about constructing Archimedean spiral using NDSolve for a differential equation on curvature as the function of the arclength.
It so ...
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Popup notification on locked mobile device for new questions
Sometimes pretty randomly (like waiting in line, etc.) I have a moment to look at the new questions on my mobile phone. But it is inefficient to constantly monitor your phone. It'd be much better to ...
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StackExchange ethos; help with caption
Many of you may be familiar with the XKCD cartoon duty calls, which portrays a rather dim view of discussions on the Internet:
One of the things I like about StackExchange, and this community in ...
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What do we mean by a self-contained (minimal) working example?
Szabolcs linked to this page titled "Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example" recently, and it really is well written. But not everything there applies to Stack Exchange, and even more so ...
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Canonical question needed: simplification via user definitions
Daniel Lichtblau generously offered to lend his expert attention to the spectrum of problems linked from this Q&A:
Can I simplify an expression into form which uses my own definitions?
The full ...
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Cannot enter the (existing) built-in-functions tag
It just happened to me when asking a question.
I wanted to add the built-in functions tag to my question. When I start typing it, this appears as an option, although I cannot choose it. Still, when I ...
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Is it possible to have an old question appear as a new question?
I have an issue that is similar to one discussed in a question a long time ago. An answer to this question could also answer my question, however it was not answered such that it solved my problem. ...
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What is a good way to make sample data points available in a question?
I am going to ask a question on plotting/fitting a lot of data points. It is hard to generate a "fake" data set to illustrate my problem. However, the data points I have are too many for direct ...
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How can I get opinions about a subject that doesn't fit the question-answer format?
I'm turning over in my mind ideas about exception handling in Mathematica. I would like to get opinions about the way I'm approaching the subject, but I find it quite difficult to compress the topic ...
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Proper way to provide a link to the Mathematica documentation in a question?
I am a new user exploring the Mathematica Documentation.
If I had a question on a particular cell in the Documentation how would I link it to a question on this site?
From googling around I ...
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The same question gets asked and answered many times; what should be done?
The same fundamental question about combining data keeps being asked and answered again and again. This is a waste of (human) resources which could be better spent on more unique problems. I am ...
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Group of proposed duplicates: Threading and Listability
There is is a group of similar questions some of which I believe need to be marked as duplicates.
Before I highhandedly close according to my own judgement I'd like to give the community a chance to ...
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Duplicates to close - import/export of complex numbers
I believe some of these related question should be closed, perhaps in favor of a canonical Q&A, but I do not wish to act alone:
Export to text file
Importing array with complex numbers
Exporting/...
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Edition/Answer and Last-Activity tag in the main board
When editing a question we now have something like:
1m ago userX 2000
Saying that 1 minute ago userX edited a question. Although it doesn't say anymore who asked the question (lets call the asker ...
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Is there any special kind of crossposting netiquette for SE/mathgroup etc.?
As probably many users here I am a subscriber to comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica (aka mathgroup).
A number of questions seem to pop up in more or less identical form on SE and mathgroup and I am ...
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Is it appropriate to post questions I could solve myself just to pad the site?
I posted this question without trying to solve it first because I wanted to keep the site active, not expecting that the answer would be quite so embarrassing (I still blame Szabolcs ;-p).
Is it a ...
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Asking questions about special characters in Mathematica
As we all know, there are certain characters which will do not show up properly in searches.
Some examples are:
f = b
f := b
f[x_, y__, ___] := c
a // f
f@b
g /@ {x, y, z}
I think it would be ...
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