Questions tagged [accepted-answer]
The accepted answer is the answer the question owner thought best met their needs. Accepting is encouraged but never required. This tag is for *discussing* issues related to accepted answers, not indicating that the tagged question *has* an accepted answer.
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What exactly does 'using artificial intelligence.. not allowed ' or something like that on the math website rules mean?
It is a bit unclear as to what is meant in the math section by using artificial intelligence ... is not allowed. For example does that include using symbolic math tools such as Maple, Maxima and many ...
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Accepting an answer that doesn't solve the question
I recently asked a question on MSE and got this answer. It doesn't actually provide a solution to the mathematical problem posed but rather gives a practical workaround to use interpolation and ...
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Found an incorrect yet accepted and upvoted answer
This answer claims that eigenvalues of a matrix are preserved under elementary row operations.
It has two upvotes and it is an accepted answer. I came across it while searching related topics on ...
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Should I ask my doubt and later answer it on my own?
So I was studying numerical methods from my class notes and got this doubt which I had asked here.
My notes are short and quick so they skip over a lot of detail. Later, I followed a textbook and my ...
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Someone's answer is completely copied and pasted from my answer, and their answer got accepted.
Someone's answer to a question is completely copied and pasted from my answer (except they didn't use Mathjax), and their answer got accepted. I don't mind, but I just think it's strange behavior, for ...
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Why is the answer not accepted?
I was trying to understand if it was true for the Dowker notation that every crossing gets an even and an odd number. The question was asked by somebody else. I think the answer is satisfactory but it ...
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Accepted/Unaccepted filter for Answers/Questions in our Profile Menu
For Questions and Answers in our Profile Menu we have the option to filter them on the basis of Score/Activity/Newest/Views but more than often feel the need for a Accepted/Unaccepted filter for both ...
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Timeline of an answer; acceptance
Can we see when an answer has been accepted in the timeline of that answer? (I've tried it, but to no avail.)
If not, where can I see this?
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What do I do if I got two equally good answers for a question that say basically the same thing, and I don't know which one to accept?
Here is the post for context: Is "today is Presidents' Day" a proposition, propositional function, or neither?
Both the answers are really great and thorough, and they basically say the ...
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My activity summary shows an answer is accepted, when it isn't. [duplicate]
My latest answer is showing up as accepted in my activity summary, when it isn't (and never was). Just thought I'd let you know.
In case anything changes, here is my unaccepted answer (and actually ...
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Answer pretends to be accepted but actually not.
The following answer is currently not accepted, but after enabling full site it is shown to be accepted. (on Android, Google chrome)
Consider:
Mobile view- Activity page:
Mobile view- Profile page:
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What does this mean 'Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?' [duplicate]
Can anyone help me in informing how can I accept an answer? Also can anyone tell how can I start a bounty? I think I have no control about it but please help.
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Do we want accepted answers unpinned on Math.SE?
Stack Overflow changed the way they sort answers:
We no longer pin the accepted answer (with the green checkmark) to the top of the list of answers. By default, we now sort strictly by votes (...
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Accepting own answer if there are other, good answers that don't answer the question as intented.
I recently posted the following reference request: click
The question got two very good answers and both answeres made an effort to explain things well. But, in the question I asked for a reference of ...
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What kind of answer to accept if I posted a problem asking to check my answer and the problem was ultimately wrong?
Recently I posted a question Four numbers are in AP such that the sum of numbers is $32$ and the greatest number is $3$ times the least. What is the product of the numbers? . In this I asked what was ...
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