Questions tagged [merging]
Questions that have been closed as duplicates may sometimes be merged by moderators. One question is retained as a stub while all answers appear on the other.
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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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Guidelines for context edits and rewrites
Suppose you come across a question that has been closed for lack of context, has high quality answers, and on its way to being deleted. Can you save the post by editing it to include more context?
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Merging questions with multiple duplicates (not a duplicate)
21 days ago from August 15, I asked my first question which looked like
$ a_1=1 ,\space a_{n+1}=a_n+\dfrac{1}{a_n} $
The question was marked as a duplicate by me undisputedly. But as being observant ...
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Merging different questions
Yesterday the moderator Alex Gruber decided to merge this question Example of integral domain with infinitely ascending chain of ideals. which explicitly asks for an example of a non-noetherian ring ...
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Integrating a question migrated from MO with answers here at MSE?
I recently asked a long soft question, involving a reference request, both here and on MO, about the traditional presentation of the change of variables formula for multiple integrals in advanced ...
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Are Questions Actually Being Merged?
One of the more powerful moderation tools on the SE network is question merging. It enables the merging of a question and its answers. There are many cases in which this is useful: the questions are ...
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Thread - Request Mergers of Very Similar Questions
Would something perennial like Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 10/2012 - 12/2014) help? Example:
♦ $\sqrt{x}$$\sqrt{x}$ = $x$ but $\sqrt{x^2}$ = $|x|$. Why?,
♦ What's ...
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Merging two identical questions with accepted answers
I found this question:
Power Series Expansion
which migrated from Meta to Main. OP seemed to be eager for an answer and couldn't wait until the migration took place, so he posted this one:
Simple ...
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When, and how, to suggest merging of questions?
Background
Just today, we had the following situation:
Proving by induction that $n^{n+1} > (n+1)^n$ for $n \ge 3$
Prove by induction that for all $n \geq 3$: $n^{n+1} > (n+1)^n$
Usually, I can ...
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