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What to do when you ask a lousy question?
I learn Mathematica on my own, and use it on my scientific studies. Sometimes there are some well known commands, trivial features, or keywords that I don't know. I ask my questions to SE community ...
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How do people remember relevant posts?
I just posted an answer to a question . I know I answered a similar question previously but could not find it. xzczd however, was able to find the previous question. So either some of you have ...
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Body of question too long
I tried to ask a question on the main site, but I got a message that said that the body was too long:
Body is limited to 30000 characters; you entered 38011.
It's because of my code,
Should I first ...
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Why is Mathematica at StackExchange so much better than Wolfram Community for finding answers?
I've noticed that you must wait sometimes days to find halfway decent answers at Wolfram Community but when posting similar questions at StackExchange Mathematica answers sometimes come within minutes ...
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Update to a recent highlight.js for the Wolfram Language
We've been working hard to update the Mathematica portion of highlight.js, and it was merged into the main repository some time ago. It fixes all kinds of issues with the old version, e.g. it supports ...
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Matematica StackExchange seems to not allow Latex typesetting
I try to post the following question on Mahtematica Stack Exchange (see below the triple lines). It shows up perfectly in the preview, but when I try to post I get the error "Your post appears to ...
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Separating algorithmic optimizations from implementation optimizations, how to best ask these questions on MMA SE?
Consider a really cool computational problem (project euler problems are the perfect candidates). To solve this problem, naive brute force won't work. There are two paths here.
I can keep the ...
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Broken links to documentation tutorials
Wolfram with V12 is rewriting and updating (or perhaps has finished) the documentation. Part of the process involves combining several short, related tutorials into a single "Tech Note." ...
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Are 3rd party tools an acceptable component of a Mathematica SE solution?
I am about to post an "Answer your own question" question in the Mathematica SE in response to a previously posted question whose answers all concluded that 'it isn't possible'. 'It' is ...
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Soliciting opinions to specify an open source WL-like language
This question from 2013 asks whether m.se is appropriate forum to discuss languages similar to WL.
One mentioned, mathics, doesn't seem to be around anymnore, or at least page is unresponsive.
I have ...
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Can anyone suggest a way that I can formaly acknowlge users in a piece of accademic work?
Over the years I have learnt a great deal from MM SE, in fact I think it has one of the best communities I have experienced out of the ones I have used/lurked on. Several regular and experienced users,...
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How do I upload my question to this website?
I'm unable to upload this question to mathematica stack exchange. I get a message below the edit box which states, "Code is not formatted correctly." Please help if possible.
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What to do with the [localization] tag?
The localization tag has 22 questions on a mish-mash of topics. Mostly it's about scoping (we have scoping), but some are about language issues.
This thread is to solicit opinions on what we should ...
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Should we make [error] tag as a synonym of [warning-messages] tag?
The word error is misleading. In many cases, the message of Mathematica only suggests that something may be wrong. Will it be better to rename it as warning-messages, which is also the terminology ...
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what is ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com? google keeps sending me to it when I search for Mathematica questions
To find something in MSE (Mathematica stackexchange), I normally use google. Recently, I keep getting top hits all from site ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com It seems like a duplicate of MSE....
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is there a way to remind someone posting a question to mark the version number in the question?
Is there a way to remind someone posting a question to mark the version number in the question?
it is getting tiring to have to ask each time what version number they are using.
At the Maple own ...
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how to improve image quality for the SEUploader?
I noticed SEUploader images are not good when copied over to stackexchange forum.
I do not know if this is the effect of latest changes done at stackexchange server or what (we had problem with ...
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Modern Mathematica vs Wolfram One: Where are they going
I've been working with Mathematica Online now for a number of years and have been very happy with it. Now as a volunteer for a data science for social good project its performance is falling a bit ...
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newsletter is not received
I do not know whether we should ask this question here, so sorry if it is not relevant. But this is a problem for me.
I have received Mathematica Stack Exchange Newsletter on Tuesday every week. But ...
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StackExchange Up loader gives error with image
I was trying to post an image in version 12.1 using the Stackexchange uploader. It brings up an error in mathematica
SETools`SEUploader`Private`stackImage::err: Server returner error: You didn\...
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Getting a site like Stack exchange running
This might not be the best place to ask this, apologies in advance. Because of the virus, my son's school got canceled and he and his friends are worried about the lost schooling. He asked me how ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020 [duplicate]
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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How to view the total number of Posts and the top 100 users with the highest points in the MMA section of stackexchange
Since I am a new user of stackexchange learning community, I want to find the top 100 users with the highest points (Community Ranking) in the MMA section of stackexchange to learn their published ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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The form of math input in stack exchange
what's the error I got here? why it is wrong? How should I make this right for post?
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How do I transfer the results of a computation from a notebook into a Mathematica.SE question? [duplicate]
i have establish the ODE model and in order to simplify the question,I just want to put the ODE, but when I get the ODE from mma, how can I paste it to mse?
codes are as this
G = m*g;
d1 = (m)/(rho*...
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Consensus on a bug
In
Why does this stiff BVP return unevaluated but a similar IVP produce a solution?,
I addressed a somewhat common problem with NDSolve, namely that when the shooting method fails due to stiffness or ...
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Meet at WTC 2019 (Wolfram Technology Conference)?
@kickert posted an answer here but I think it should be a separate question.
Anyone attending the Wolfram Technology Conference in Champaign?
Perhaps a meet up?
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How do you format front end typesetting here in stack exchange?
When copying Wolfram language commands from Notebook front end to stack exchange how do you format here? For example,
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appropriate credit for using a code posted on stackexchange
I have a more general question regarding StackExchange (Sorry if this is not the right place to post such a "meta-question"): When I use a code posted here for, lets say, doing some research and I ...
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Should duplicates be closed any more?
Nearly every day, I see a question I suspect of being a duplicate. Sometimes I find a dupe, sometimes not. Common problems are so familiar to many of us that we know whether a given question has ...
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Unilateral vote by moderator
Re Why can I write 2x as alternative to 2 x?. Looking at the timeline we can see that it was closed as primarily opinion-based and then edited. It entered the reopen queue, where the two users that ...
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"Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code" with math blocks
Could anyone tell me why the site keeps telling me that
"Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as
code. Please indent all code by 4 spaces using the code toolbar
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What happened to the idea of implementing a community blog?
I wonder what happened to the idea of our own community blog. Several volunteers had agreed to provide good content.
The discussion was promising, and I wonder if anything had come out of it because ...
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Answering own question as promotion for commercial products?
My question is mainly inspired by the question about Mathematica as LaTeX editor that judging by the vote counts has been somehow controversial.
We already have a guide on promotion titled "How to ...
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Suggestions for "Open Bugs" database software for Wolfram Language / Mathematica issues?
Earlier this year there have been discussions about the creation of an "Open Bugs" database for the Wolfram Language / Mathematica. For example, this was discussed one or more times during one of ...
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About the MathWorld tag
A spurious question today, now gone, was tagged mathworld, which led me to look into the tag. It had only one question, and I considered removing the tag from the question. The question was about ...
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Why do I sometimes get boxes when I try to paste an equation?
I was just trying to ask a question but when I started to paste the equations I got
disp = {u[r, z], w[r, z]};
ddisp = {
\!\(\*SuperscriptBox[\(u\),
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Would questions about C "translations" be on topic?
I come from C programming, and as clear as they may be, I do not understand many of the examples in the documentation.
Would it be on topic to ask for a C "translation" of some examples?
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Do I need to re-report a bug?
A while ago, I reported a bug in Mathematica and I got an official response which confirmed its existence and promised to take care of it.
Now that the new version of Mathematica (12.0) has been ...
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Optimal design for simple documentation of user defined functions
I find myself never writing documentation. This isn't because the tools don't exist, but rather because writing full-fledged Mathematica documentation is tedious with linking, example writing, ...
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Gauging community interest and feedback on packages
I have developed a package that I think might be of general interest to a wide range of Mathematica users, and could lower the barrier to attracting new users. I am not certain that it is at the stage ...
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Are feature requests allowed?
I wonder whether feature requests for the Mathematica system are allowed on the main site or on the meta site?
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New version 12 symbols are not highlighted by the syntax highlighter
I've noticed that the symbol list for syntax highlighting doesn't include many symbols that are new in version 12. For example:
You can see that Reverse is highlighted correctly, while SubsetMap is ...
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New Site Logo: Final versions
Important for StackExchange staff!
We were approached by Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, through one of his employees who is a regular user here. He asked if our community can consider ...
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Site Logo Text: Mathematica and XXX. Which wording exactly?
It's safe to say that after quite a discussion, the general consensus is that we should add "Wolfram Language" as sub-text to our header image. Now, the question is what exactly should we put there. I ...
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Ask the Community: Should we add "Wolfram Language" to our site's header image?
Voting is now taking place in the following Q&A to determine which header image to use:
Site Logo Text: Mathematica and XXX. Which wording exactly?
Recently, Arnoud asked in our chat if it is ...
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Post contains a code that is not properly formatted
I am trying to post this question on Mathematica StackExchange but I am getting an error that my code is not properly formatted. I double-checked every line for some time now, but I cannot find an ...
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Content of two site help pages: writing a good question vs. on-topic content
I have noticed lately quite a few questions from new users that are unfortunately unanswerable because they do not contain enough detail, or code, or data. Rather than re-hashing the usual comments ("...
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Cool Project Ideas
I like to have at least one side project going at all times and often get bored with one and would like to play with another. Sometimes I find myself (as now) unable to come up with an inspiring, ...
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