Mathematics - 2012-06-13 (page 1 of 3)

@Jordan I don't think you are going to get the help you need here. If you are in school, it's best to get help there, seriously, in your case at least.

Eugene

12:07 AM

@PeterTamaroff not doing anything. been grading

Peter Tamaroff

@Eugene Graaadiiiiiiing.

How's it going?

Eugene

@PeterTamaroff if i ever see a peter tamaroff i'll fail him! ;{

user19161

@PeterTamaroff Ah I did not really read that one but it looks really good.

user19161

@Eugene Maybe one day he will fail you!

Marvis

@Eugene Are you an undergrad as well?

Eugene

12:09 AM

@JasperLoy i'll be done with grad school by then!

@Marvis nope. master's student who just finished masters

user19161

@Eugene No, he'll reject your paper when he becomes editor of a journal.

user19161

@Eugene That's when the real terror starts.

Eugene

@JasperLoy seeing that he likes anal i doubt it

user19161

@Jordan Maybe forget about math if you can't do it, like I said before. I don't mean to discourage you, but sometimes we can't do the things we would like to.

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy It is fun how the chatpage censors your JB image to a blue square.

It knows.

@Eugene Hahaha you'll put him off. I don't really look forward to being an editor.

Eugene

12:12 AM

@PeterTamaroff you have to man. it's an obligation.

user19161

@PeterTamaroff I just changed into a blue square.

Peter Tamaroff

@Eugene Obligation?

user19161

@Eugene For a moment I interpreted your sentence literally.

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy Hahahaha he means **Anal**ysis.

Eugene

@PeterTamaroff yes. i mean no one likes doing it but if everyone refused to do it then papers wouldn't get published

so it's academic obligation

people who submit papers should also agree to referee

Peter Tamaroff

12:16 AM

@Eugene Oh, refereeing. Sure. I thoght editing and refereeing weren't synonims.

Eugene

@PeterTamaroff they aren't but both need to be done.

Peter Tamaroff

@Eugene But isn't editing actualyly changing what is written in a paper?

user19161

@PeterTamaroff thought, synonyms

user19161

@PeterTamaroff actually

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy Oh, you're from ELU. lol

I have some typing problems since I have a hand condition. Thanks anyways.

Eugene

12:20 AM

@PeterTamaroff it's also putting the journal together.

Peter Tamaroff

@Eugene Oh. OK.

Eugene

@PeterTamaroff publishing is nice but there's all the nitty gritty

my paper was only published 2 years after it was submitted.

Peter Tamaroff

@Eugene WOW. I think you had linked to it, didn't you?

Eugene

@PeterTamaroff i think so.

user19161

@Eugene Ah, I only have the newspaper.

Eugene

12:22 AM

@PeterTamaroff also as a professor you'll have to write recommendation letters, serve on doctoral boards, etc.

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy What do you do?

Eugene

oh and also committees

all those fun stuff.

and you'll have to teach, grade, proctor

user19161

@PeterTamaroff Nothing. I am taking a long break from life.

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy Cool. How are you chillaxing?

Eugene

@PeterTamaroff see myerson's comment

user19161

12:26 AM

@PeterTamaroff Not good. I am not well actually, and I am hoping for a miracle to change my life.

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy Ow. Well, I wish the best to you. But, remember that waiting doesn't get you anything. One has to take action.

Kinda like Newton's law of innertia.

@Eugene Hahahhahhahaha lol

user19161

@PeterTamaroff I am doing whatever I can, hence I used the word "miracle".

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy I don't get it.

Eugene

@HenningMakholm brilliant!

user19161

@PeterTamaroff Never mind. I just meant that there are some things we cannot help. We can only do our best and then hope for the best.

Henning Makholm

12:32 AM

@Eugene thanks.

Peter Tamaroff

@HenningMakholm I love the starting line. "The proof of the pudding is on the eating."

@HenningMakholm What is it that you do?

Eugene

@HenningMakholm i thought it was a marvelous reply.

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy Right.

user19161

@PeterTamaroff You once asked me to correct your essay remember? Was that you?

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy Oh! Essay? I don't think so. Short story most probably.

user19161

12:34 AM

@PeterTamaroff Ah yes, I gave you my comments on your short story.

Henning Makholm

@PeterTamaroff I don't think I can take credit for the proverb... (but I'll accept a modest amount of respect for not writing "the proof is in the pudding").

Peter Tamaroff

@JasperLoy Yes. That is a story I really liked.

@JasperLoy I assume you're interested in Language Use right?

user19161

@PeterTamaroff Sort of kind of. But I am really more interested in mathematics, though I am not involved in that now.

Peter Tamaroff

@HenningMakholm Maybe something like "The proof is in the cake, unless it's a lie." 'd have gotten you more upvotes.

Henning Makholm

@PeterTamaroff Perhaps -- but then again I hope that a tired pop culture reference would not be enough to offset the utter loss of meaning...

@PeterTamaroff Not sure I understand your question.

Peter Tamaroff

12:38 AM

@HenningMakholm Which one?

Henning Makholm

@PeterTamaroff The one I linked my response to: "What is it that you do?"

Peter Tamaroff

@HenningMakholm Oh, I mean, what do you work in/like to do/want to do?

Henning Makholm

I'm a software developer, and like it. Network/framework/infrastructure things.

Except right now, where the system linker on Mac OS X behaves in mysterious ways that I can't figure out...

Peter Tamaroff

@HenningMakholm Cool. What have you developed?

Henning Makholm

Overall, we make a suite of video streaming software. I got to make a Java compiler for in-house use, and the core architecture behind our on-demand streaming system.

Peter Tamaroff

12:48 AM

@HenningMakholm And what is the role mathematics plays in soft dev?

Henning Makholm

Everything or nothing, depending on perspective. Every once in a while I need to code up something like a linear regression, but usually there's not many references to theorems in my daily work. On the other hand the abstraction and generalization skill that is needed to design and debug good software is much the same as that which one needs in mathematics.

Jonas Teuwen

@robjohn This conference is really cool!

And I have spoken to a few people that I don't know but they know me... For some reason!

Peter Tamaroff

@JonasTeuwen Do you work with PDE's Jonas?

Jonas Teuwen

@PeterTamaroff Well, yea, but not much.

Well, come here, the world experts on these things are here... Well, now sleeping probably.

Peter Tamaroff

@JonasTeuwen Oh. I need to tranform a PDE.

@JonasTeuwen See this

Jonas Teuwen

12:59 AM

It is bloody 3AM!

Peter Tamaroff

@JonasTeuwen I've been told an Argentinean is an international expert on PDE's.

He won a prize some time ago.

Jonas Teuwen

Yea, sure.

Peter Tamaroff

@JonasTeuwen There? LOL! It's 10pm here-

Jonas Teuwen

There are many in Argentina.

He is here.

Peter Tamaroff

@JonasTeuwen Argentina! Dude!

@JonasTeuwen Here? As in math.SE?

Jonas Teuwen

1:01 AM

@PeterTamaroff No, this building.

He was sitting in the lobby when I walked in at 2AM...

Peter Tamaroff

I'm talking about Luis Caffarelli.

You know him!?

Jonas Teuwen

Oh, here there is Bongioanni and Cabral.

Yes.

Peter Tamaroff

@JonasTeuwen Yes, you know Caffarelli?

Jonas Teuwen

Well "know"...

Peter Tamaroff

@JonasTeuwen After reading just a little about Truesdell's Essay I got really interested in PDEs, Lie Alegbras and that stuff. Though I really don't know what the last is, it seemed interesting. I know there is a big fuzz about some algebraic structure and the grand unified theory.

@JonasTeuwen He, rights.

I'll be AFK for a while.

I'm back.

Jonas Teuwen

1:08 AM

Hmm, they are here more into harmonic analysis.

And some functional analytic approaches.

There was some guy giving a talk about PDEs on domains with cusps... What the!

Peter Tamaroff

@JonasTeuwen Too much?

Jonas Teuwen

No, just crazy stuff.

Peter Tamaroff

@JonasTeuwen Hahaha well, that's what I meant.

Peter Tamaroff

1:40 AM

@MarianoSuárezAlvarez Estas?

leo

@PeterTamaroff What site? If I can ask

Peter Tamaroff

@leo I can't remember now. I can see the history though.

"Nakido"

leo

I see

Peter Tamaroff

@leo Why do you ask?

leo

@PeterTamaroff Are there some books?

Peter Tamaroff

1:48 AM

@leo There? Nah, I guess I just happened to find this one. You could try quedelibros.com though.

leo

@PeterTamaroff I used to visit bookfi.com

but there is some books I can't find

whatever

Peter Tamaroff

@leo Which ones?

leo

@Eugene your reputation grow fast

Eugene

@leo ?

leo

@PeterTamaroff don't remember one right now

I just recall that happen

@Eugene 2120 in 32 days. That's good :-)

Peter Tamaroff

1:54 AM

@leo Not without some help [coughs]

leo

I see

@Eugene now I understand Radon Nikodym

Eugene

@leo tamaroff is worse

8800 in 4 months

leo

Yes, already noted.

=)

@PeterTamaroff como digo: "el detalle que no entendía era trivial"?

I'm bad with times: past, future, present...

Eugene

que bueno. mucho bueno

leo

@Eugene :-)

Peter Tamaroff

1:59 AM

@leo The detail I couldn't get was trivial.

The detail I was missing was trivial.

leo

@PeterTamaroff Thanks

Peter Tamaroff

@leo No hay problemo

leo

I think Eugene already got it what I want to say.

@Eugene It is "muy bien" instead of "mucho bueno" :-)

user19161

@JonasTeuwen Well, I don't know anything about PDEs but I really like Michael Taylor's books. The three volumes contain so much stuff in them from all fields of mathematics!

leo

Interesting:

5

Q: Vitali set of outer-measure exactly $1$.

I know that for any $\varepsilon\in (0,1]$ we can find a non-measurable subset (w.r.t Lebesgue measure) of $[0,1]$ so that its outer-measure equals exactly $\varepsilon$. It is done basicly with the traditional Vitali construction inside the interval $[0,\varepsilon]$ and noticing that such a set...

measure-theory

Peter Tamaroff

2:14 AM

@leo Measure theory is interesting right?

leo

@PeterTamaroff I think so!

sorry for the delay

at the beginning, there is a lot of technical details that always are left to reader in the books. And they are not trivial some times. At least for me.

Peter Tamaroff

@leo I don't like when authors do that!

leo

@PeterTamaroff me neither. I hate when the theory exposed depends on some exercise

Peter Tamaroff

2:30 AM

@leo I think I will buy Landau's book, but the one that is edited with excercises. His exposition is really, really clear!

leo

@PeterTamaroff cool

Peter Tamaroff

@leo You should really look at the section on his book of Integral and Differential Calc, where he dedicates a full chapter to the Gamma functions.

His proofs are really worth reading!

leo

@PeterTamaroff What's the name of the book?

Peter Tamaroff

@leo Oh. Just take it from this link:

Here

leo

@PeterTamaroff Thanks!

I must go

see you later

Peter Tamaroff

2:41 AM

@leo Ok, cheers. See you.

Daniel Montealegre

2:58 AM

Hello

Jordan

@JasperLoy If I am not suppose to do math then tell me what I can do that doesn't have any math in it?

Eugene

@leo oh shut up you.

David Wheeler

well, well, if it isn't Jordan.

Last time i saw you lurking about, you were wrestling with partial fraction decompositions.

i'll be honest with you, i HATED those.

Eugene

3:38 AM

@DavidWheeler a lot of questions on algebra.

leo

4:08 AM

@Eugene ?

Eugene

4:29 AM

@leo muay beuno.. so what!

Dylan Moreland

@Peter That integral question was more drama than it should have been.

David Wheeler

5:18 AM

drama? who? what? where? when?....WHY??????

Eugene

@DavidWheeler here

David Wheeler

i cannot see that Nana made a mistake....

Eugene

@DavidWheeler he didn't. that was the drama. mike hardy did.

especially when mike hardy said "The answer posted by Nana is wrong. It commits one of the facile mistakes that students in freshman calculus make when they're inattentive to details."

David Wheeler

mr. hardy's comments seem a bit unjustifiably...erm, acerbic.

Eugene

@DavidWheeler and not even accurate in this case.

it's over now though.

anon

5:30 AM

wat

David Wheeler

apparently Mr. Hardy conceded, after some reflection. i do see where Nana's exposition isn't transparent, he doesn't explain the details of the impact upon "dx", but that is a stylistic matter.

Eugene

@anon and we've spotted a crank.

David Wheeler

he has a genuine question in there...but he lacks the vocabulary to pose it properly

Eugene

@DavidWheeler yes indeed. i sometimes make rash mistakes too so i understand though. the comment is rather uncalled for.

David Wheeler

sometimes, i see untoward displays of unsympathy for those who struggle with mathematical ideas. it's elitest, and i find it distasteful.

Eugene

5:34 AM

@anon i was typing an answer to the galois question when suddenly 3 answers were made...

David Wheeler

when suddenly...a wild galois answer appeared.

anon

I've had that a few times. I've never had 4 answers appear at once though; 3 is the record in my experience.

Eugene

arturo moves like light...

anon

Also I'm going to have to disagree with the "crank" label again. Cranks are stubborn against resistance, this guy just doesn't seem to know what he's talking about.

Eugene

i'm gonna go surfing for unanswered questions in elliptic curves. i don't expect arturo or brian to beat me there.

anon

5:36 AM

heh

you'll have to look out for the likes of Matt E then

Eugene

@anon it seems to conform within these standards. however this is an MSE question after all.

@anon Matt E doesn't seem to swoop in in the middle of my typing so i think i'm fine.

@anon the guy really helped me through my thesis so i'm really grateful to him.

anon

not once is the word crank in that blog post

Eugene

@DavidWheeler several wild galois.

@anon well i think it's sort of implies but that's my opinion however.

anon

the word crank connotes an attitude problem IMO.

not merely crazy/incoherent ideas.

Dylan Moreland

@Eugene Same.

Eugene

5:41 AM

@DylanMoreland hahaha.

@anon i see. i respect that.

Dylan Moreland

It was too similar to Arturo's answer and a few seconds late.

And seconds are all you really get with that guy :)

Eugene

@DylanMoreland mine too. i had just started writing out the splitting field. i wonder how he did it so fast....

David Wheeler

it's my understanding that "galois" has come to mean a pair of adjoint functors. such thoughts make me dizzy.

Dylan Moreland

I wish I were clobbering elliptic curve questions here.

Eugene

@DylanMoreland they're tough. see this

Dylan Moreland

5:43 AM

It's something I've spent a lot of time on but I still feel uneasy about it.

Eugene

they are very hard after all.

Dylan Moreland

I think it's so easy to ask something about them that's outrageously hard.

Exactly.

Eugene

@anon do you think i should answer this in detail?

@DylanMoreland the thing is i swear i've seen something similar to this in milne

anon

@Eugene Why are you asking me? If you have the know-how then go for it.

Eugene

@anon it's kind of answered in the comments...

David Wheeler

5:46 AM

i looked at the galois question...my first thought was: order 4, two involutions.

(actually three, but 2 were obvious)

Dylan Moreland

Do it.

anon

Eugene: doesn't matter really, as it's generally accepted good form to answer unanswered questions. (and it's not like Qiaochu needs the rep so there's no need to nudge him to write an answer ...)

Dylan Moreland

Keeps stuff out of the unanswered pile.

It's interesting and not completely trivial. The OP is overthinking it still, it seems. It's honest work.

Eugene

hm. i'll work on it tomorrow then maybe.

i still have about 50 papers to grade...

i can't understand why calc students love to convert their answers to fractions!

David Wheeler

example?

Dylan Moreland

5:50 AM

As opposed to?

Er, give an example. Maybe that's a better thing to say.

Eugene

$\dfrac{7}{2}\left(e + \dfrac{\pi}{2}\right) \approx 15.01$

David Wheeler

i don't like to speak in the imperative.

Eugene

i've told them a thousand times they can leave it like that on the left

Dylan Moreland

To decimals, then?

Yeah.

Eugene

yikes.

i said fractions.

yes i meant decimals.

Dylan Moreland

5:52 AM

I was surprised!

I've had the same experience. They like punching things into calculators.

David Wheeler

well, for "theoretical math" any two equivalent expressions are "the same"

Eugene

these ones are still not too bad. the ones where they change to decimals three steps before really suck

@DylanMoreland that and wolfram alpha

David Wheeler

but in physical sciences, the magnitude of the answer may be important

Dylan Moreland

Right, and then you get little rounding errors which propagate.

Eugene

@DavidWheeler maybe... it kind of gives me heck though when the answers are off from the marking scheme.

@DylanMoreland indeed. sometimes off by 3

the beautiful thing is

they also do it for exams...

where we explicitly disallow calculators

oh well i'm past the third stage of grading now. time to get back to it.

bye @anon. bye @DavidWheeler

anon

5:57 AM

later

David Wheeler

ok...in my head pi/2 is about 1.57 and e is around 2.72, that's 4.29 times 3 is 12.87, and another half is 2.15, for 15.02 in all, so i'm good with 15.0-ish

of course, if i really want my error to less than 0.005, i have to figure out more "ugly stuff" which makes my head hurt

off-hand i think i need 4 decimal place estimates for e and pi, to keep the 2nd decimal place "pure"

anon

Hmm. If $\sigma\in\mathrm{Aut}(G\times H)$ and $i_{G,H}:G,H\to G\times H,~\pi_{G,H}:G\times H\to G,H$ the embeddings/projections, then why is $[\mathrm{Im}\,(\pi_G\circ\sigma\circ i_G),\mathrm{Im}\,(\pi_G\circ\sigma\circ i_H)]=1$? This is in reference to this and the recent group theory answer by Arturo on automorphism groups of direct products.

Unfortunately Part I of the paper seems to be the authors thesis and is not available online.

robjohn

6:19 AM

Greetings!

anon

yo

robjohn

@anon It seems quite quiet here

anon

I guess.

anon

6:52 AM

Why create a (calc) tag when there's already a (calculus) tag? Yeash.

Eugene

i gave up!

@anon you should talk to martin on tagging.

Martin Sleziak

I'll probably have to go AFK in a while.

Eugene

ok

@robjohn greetings!

Martin Sleziak

@anon I see the questions are already retagged. I don't see any questions at calc.

Eugene

@MartinSleziak i retagged it

Martin Sleziak

7:05 AM

ok, thanks for doing that!

Eugene

no problem

i'm working on the numbers tag too

i'm down to 29 now i think?

robjohn

@Eugene Hey there! Sorry for the delay, I was answering a question with a lot of exponent chasing :-)

Eugene

@robjohn oh it's no problem. i was in turn replying to your greeting!

i really write in english like a foreigner.

robjohn

@Eugene you do, eh?

Eugene

@robjohn you don't think so?

@robjohn also you must have some canadian blood in you!

robjohn

7:13 AM

@Eugene well, whether you are a foreigner depends on what country the listener is in :-)

Eugene

@robjohn haha. fair enough!

robjohn

@Eugene I was making a joke with the "eh?"

Eugene

@robjohn haha. it makes sense now. you only ever use it with me...

i was beaten by arturo again today...

that guy writes like a bullet train.

robjohn

@Eugene beaten in reputation? I wouldn't worry. He is one of the highest scorers here.

Eugene

@robjohn no i mean i was about to write an answer to a galois theory question when suddenly a new answer appears.

and none other than arturo greeted me.

robjohn

7:21 AM

@Eugene Ah, that happens. That is why he has such a high reputation.

Eugene

the beauty is that he even had the time to edit the question

he has inhuman typing speed that man!

Jonas Teuwen

@robjohn Hi! I sat at the same breakfast table as Steve Hoffman and Pascal Ausscher, how cool is that?

robjohn

@JonasTeuwen That's pretty neat! Conferences are great for meeting others in your field :-)

@JonasTeuwen I am jealous!

Jonas Teuwen

Yea, but these are for my particular thing like the very best. Well you have many of the very best here... Hm!

There are a few that seem to do the very hard things so effortless...

Stuff like: Oh, but it is not so hard to see that Carleson theorem still holds if your functions take values in an intermediate space between an UMD space and a Hilbert space!

I don't even have a clue what that is by the way.

robjohn

@JonasTeuwen They have thought a lot about these things.

Jonas Teuwen

7:28 AM

Well, the guy is only like ... 28 or something.

But I know his (former) PhD student. He has some cool cone covering results which I can use in my Gaussian setting.

And there is this Bourgain-stuff lecture about "transversal multilinear harmonic analysis"

robjohn

7:47 AM

@JonasTeuwen Bourgain sent me one of his papers when I was a grad student :-)

2

@JonasTeuwen you can do a lot of thinking in 28 years :-D

Américo Tavares

math.stackexchange.com/q/123632/752@robjohn What's your opinion on it

robjohn

@Eugene: I hear that we've taken some sort of cup from Canada recently

@AméricoTavares lemme look

@AméricoTavares I will work on an answer. In the meantime, you might like reading this question dealing with the usually divergent Euler-Maclaurin Sum Series (and my answer).

Américo Tavares

@robjohn Many thanks!

Szabolcs

This is a naive question, but I was wondering if there are any simple criteria for checking if all roots of a real-coefficient polynomial are real.

robjohn

@Szabolcs: hey there! Nice to see you here again :-)

@Szabolcs Yes!

Szabolcs

7:58 AM

Hi @robjohn :-)

robjohn

@Szabolcs Sturm's Theorem

Szabolcs

@robjohn Thanks! In this age of computers I got so lazy that in a practical situation I'd just solve numerically... it's always good to know if there are better ways!

Jonas Teuwen

8:48 AM

Which is in about... 7 minutes. So see you guys!

Uh, I said that some time ago... Internet broken here! :D.

Jonas Teuwen

9:15 AM

@robjohn Bourgain papers? They mention his name all the time in like every harmonic analysis context... "But Bourgain obtained a sharper estimate...".

Ilya

9:40 AM

@robjohn: are you around?

Jaydon Zhao

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^oops ignore that.

Nimza

10:31 AM

Hello

Do you know where can I read about properties of integrals of set-valued functions? I want to show that if $P(t)$ is continuous convex compact, then $\int\limits_{0}^{1} P(t) dt$ is also a convex compact

Julius

11:44 AM

hello, $M_t=W_t+W_{t^2}$, where $W_t$ is Wiener process, how could i show that $M_t$ is Gaussian process instead of just saying that it is the sum of two Gaussian processes?

robjohn

@Ilya I was not, and now I am :-)

Jaydon Zhao

12:00 PM

if we have a geometric series with a common ratio as a complex number, e.g. $\e^{i \theta}$, will it converge?

$e^{i \theta}$

Jordan

That was a short ban

Jaydon Zhao

help anyone? D:

Henning Makholm

@JaydonZhao It converges if the absolute value of the ratio is less than 1.

Jaydon Zhao

@Henning: thanks :)

Zhen Lin

12:28 PM

Either my hard disk is failing, or the kernel has a bug that corrupts random files... hmmm...

Henning Makholm

I'm going to need exactly three downvotes soon. Anyone game?

Zhen Lin

Numerology again? Hmmm....

Martin Sleziak

Do I still lost reputation if I downvote something?

Henning Makholm

Downvoting questions doesn't cost reputation.

Martin Sleziak

Well it used to.

@HenningMakholm I would suggest that you edit 1 tag wiki and 1 tag excerpt, to get +4.

Henning Makholm

12:38 PM

Downvoting answers does.

Eugene

@robjohn oh? the stanley cup?

Martin Sleziak

Ach so.

Zhen Lin

Ah, I didn't know there was a difference between downvoting questions and answers....

robjohn

@Eugene Yes. Someone I spoke to at UCLA yesterday actually saw it in Santa Monica night before last.

Martin Sleziak

Although I am not sure where the threshold is - but I still get rep for editing tag wiki. Maybe it's only under 20k.

robjohn

12:40 PM

@ZhenLin downvoting answers costs you a rep point

Eugene

@robjohn well the canadians haven't had that one in years.

robjohn

@MartinSleziak Yes, I stopped getting rep for that at 20K

Martin Sleziak

So this won't help Henning to get nice round number....

robjohn

@MartinSleziak over 20K the only way to change your rep mod 5 is by being downvoted or to downvote some answers.

Martin Sleziak

What bout getting 25 bounty.

robjohn

12:43 PM

I don't know if bounties can be for weird amounts.

@MartinSleziak You mean 21 bounty?

Martin Sleziak

*If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be awarded half the bounty amount. *

This would only help mod 10.

robjohn

@MartinSleziak or the accepted answer

@MartinSleziak yes getting acceptances and upvotes leaves things the same mod 5

Martin Sleziak

Faq says: Slice off anywhere from +50 to +500 of your own hard-earned reputation and attach it to any question as a bounty.

So it seems you can give 51 rep points for bounty.

robjohn

@MartinSleziak I have never tried setting up a bounty, so I don't know what the actually implementation allows.

Martin Sleziak

I received 100 points bounty once; and I put the same amount as a bounty to the same question.

Henning Makholm

12:47 PM

@MartinSleziak And here I spent minutes and minutes looking for a tag wiki that needed improvement.

Martin Sleziak

@HenningMakholm It's easy to find tag wiki needing improvement. Most of tag wikis are empty - so there's plenty of room for improvement.

So I remembered it wrong - it was only 50 points bounty.

Henning Makholm

@MartinSleziak Well, it would also have to be a field I know enough about to be able to write something useful. (And I confess I was mostly looking at excerpts).

Martin Sleziak

Maybe you can post meta: How to earn exactly 4 rep points.

Henning Makholm

Another way would be to downvote one answer and post one somewhat good question.

Alternatively just forget it and hope for more luck when 32768 comes around.

Martin Sleziak

I am willing to upvote your question How did “one-to-one” come to mean “injective”?

I find it interesting and I haven't voted there yet.

But you would have to find some answer you could downvote.

Henning Makholm

12:57 PM

Oh, finding things to downvote is not a problem. I'm the certified Mr. Grumpy here. There, done.