Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates a reproducible problem on the site that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error.
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Merging instead of closing similar questions
How do you solve this equation $ \log_{2}(x) = \sqrt x$?
How would you prove $\log_{2}x < \sqrt x$ for $x > 16$?
I understand these are duplicate questions in essence. However, I got really ...
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Error message regarding edit summary
As of this morning, I seem unable to put Edit summaries that I have used in the past. Specifically, I made two formatting edits, and attempted to write "Formatting" in the Edit summary box, ...
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MSE read-only mode banner links are useless
The MSE banner,
This site is currently in read-only mode. We’ll return with full functionality soon. Visit our status page or search our recent meta posts on the topic for more info.
has two links, ...
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Question not visible in the list of questions under a tag
My question isn't visible in the lists of questions of any of the three tags that were added. I searched using "No accepted answers" filter and went till Feb 11, 2022 (the date on which it ...
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Matrices do not render in preview
Why does this example:
$$
\begin{matrix}
1 & x & x^2 \\
1 & y & y^2 \\
1 & z & z^2 \\
\end{matrix}
$$
no longer render correctly, at least ...
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review queue tests get grayed out
When I'm reviewing questions in the review queues, there sometimes is a question that gets greyed, where you can't even comment I think. This is always one of the tests, but this obviously defeats the ...
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Does this matrix look like a matrix to you? It doesn't to me
$$\begin{pmatrix} a& b& c \\ d & e & f \\ g & h & i \end{pmatrix} $$
Here what I'm seeing
What is the work around for this issue?
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Online preview display of answers/questions works only in the first round of editing in MSE
It seems I am experiencing a bug when working in MSE for some weeks. When I edit my answers/questions for the second time, the online displayer does not work on any devices (i.e., I cannot see any ...
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Editing a post is not a reason for failing an audit.
I was doing some reviewing and I arrived at this post. It contains some explanation and a link to a drawing. In order to understand what the whole thing was about, I decided to edit the question.
As ...
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Tag synonyms: Inconsistencies
Many tags have synonyms. My understanding is that there are "primary" tags with one or more synonyms. If somebody uses a synonym, then the this tag is automatically replaced by the primary ...
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preview doesn’t reflect actual appearance of post when links are on one line seperated by <br> tags
In my answer at Summing a binomial series that arose while counting functions, I listed some related questions like this:
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Was the style of the up/down-vote arrows changed?
I noticed that the style of the up/down-votes button has changed (for me at least). At first, I thought it was a bug, but frequent reloading makes it look like a change.
Now, it looks quite similar to ...
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Difficulties with displaying set signs
In the following question I recently asked, I wasn't able to the display the symbols denoting sets in mathematics: {, and }.
Usually, I write them by putting
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Removing a tag does not immediately remove the question from the list of questions for the tag
I just removed the geometric-probability tag from Coupon collector problem with a large set of coupons. When I then searched for questions with this tag (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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Malformatted parentheses
Update: StackExchange is still using MathJax v2.7.5, while the current release is v3.2 and has corrected some of this sort of rendering error. So this report may not be of interest to anyone.
Davide ...
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