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How to report bugs?
How to report probable bugs or quirks to WRI? What is the standard way to do it? Is there a known list of bugs maintained by WRI? Can we track the status of bugs anywhere?
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How to post long numerical data as input to code?
(From R.M.'s comment)
If the question is not depending on a particular matrix (e.g. the error appears with any random matrix), then please use a concise, implicit one-line definition, for example:
R …
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What is a good way to make sample data points available in a question?
Before deciding on posting a large dataset, try the followings:
Analyze your problematic data some further. It is almost always reducable to a smaller set that still demonstrates the issue - it is o …
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Search tips needed?
Do an empty search, and there will be a link Advanced Search Tips that opens in-place (hence the lack of link here). I've copied the content of that help below. More help on advanced search in the Hel …
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50+ reopen votes under Review?
Recently a huge amount of reopen votes appeared under the review tab, 53 to be exact. Some of these were closed as duplicates, e.g.
Copying Greek text from notebooks as unicode
https://mathematica. …
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Some of my posts were deleted not by my own? How can I check those and get one backup
StackOverflow meta thread about this feature.
You can find a link to your deleted recent questions on your profile, at the bottom of your Questions page:
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How to specify Mathematica as a programming language?
When I have to introduce Mathematica to someone who is/isn't a programmer, I usually have a hard time to provide a useful description. Stating that it is a
high level programming language & symboli …
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Should we approve minor edits of low quality questions?
In the last few months I encountered many edits in the review queue where low quality/insignificant/too localized posts (e.g. this) were edited by low-rep users. Quite frequently these posts are likel …
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Posting answers in comments
Some related threads:
When is it okay to answer a question in a comment?
Unanswered Questions (mostly the comments)
recent purging to reduce the number of unanswered Qs
I think there is one legiti …
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Community projects
This thread is dedicated to projects dreamed, designed, implemented and maintained by our community (per this chat discussion). …
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What to do with brackets in function[]-style references?
From some time now I was consistently replacing such bracketed references with non-bracketed ones, because of the following reasons:
Shorter is better;
The Online Documentation uses function referen …
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What to do with brackets in function[]-style references?
Recently I encountered more and more situations where the poster/editor explicitly used function[] instead of function when referencing built-in functions (i.e. Dot[] instead of Dot). What is the gene …
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How bout a "The Wolfram Language" tag?
As I have already argued against such a tag, here are a few points:
Since Mathematica is an IDE for, based on and written in the Wolfram Language, this would practically require the retagging of all …
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Timed procedures tag
If I understand you correctly, you are looking for a tag that applies to cases where a combination of the followings apply:
timing and/or temporal order is important during evaluation/runtime; timin …
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What additional tag should questions like this have? (measurements from image)
I propose to use computational-geometry.
It has a very short, uninformative wiki at the moment, but in my understanding, this covers measurements and similar as well. From Wikipedia:
"Computation …