Questions tagged [asking-questions]
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Does my question require additional context? [closed]
For my question What is the limit involving Sum, Subsets, and RankedMax as t approaches infinity?, I decided not to add additional context as the mathematics behind my code is extremely complex.
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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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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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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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Question about Wolframalpha itself
I have to ask a question about WolframAlpha itself: Can I ask it on the site?, or is it off topic.
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Can you help me at formulating question on "which function uses this data and output this scalar value"?
I've got a set of frequency distribution and output value
i.e.
F[0 1 2 3 6 9 2 5 2 2 1 1 1] = 11.30
F[0 0 2 3 4 6 2 8 2 1 1 1 1] = 41.66
I want to find a function F which gives that returns that ...
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Pitfalls for more experienced users - help with asking not too broad question
Done: Unexpected behaviors in built-in functions will appreciate feedback/input etc.
I want to ask a question on main which will qualify as 'too broad but helpful enough to stay'. (like common ...
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First-time posts with unformatted code should be automatically caught
tl;dr This is a feature request to enable automatically detecting unformatted code in first-time posts, and show a helpful message to the poster on how to fix it.
According to the following meta post,...
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How can I get rid of an on-hold designation?
I asked two questions in Mathematica SE. Both of my questions have been put on hold as off-topic. How can I get rid of them or do I need to wait (if yes, how long)?
Also, I have modified one of the ...
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