The Crusade of Answers

Our menace: the Unanswered queue. Our goal: total annihilation! (NB. This room is only for old, unanswered questions.)
2d ago – Shaun
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May 20, 2024 01:10
I'm posting this only to keep the room from freezing.
Feb 7, 2024 01:39
I'm posting this only to keep the room from freezing.
Jan 5, 2024 06:25
I'm only posting this to keep the room from freezing.
Nov 8, 2023 15:04
I seem to remember we have some interesting queries here for looking up questions. I was simply using the filter that selects "no answers" and then sorted them by age
Nov 8, 2023 15:03
@Shaun Sure. Most I answered with what I considered to be enough to resolve the question (for example, if the question were answered in the comments then abandoned.) A few were junk which nobody had bothered to update or comment on a long time, so they were good candidates for closure and deletion.
Nov 8, 2023 14:36
I recently started searching through old unanswered questions to try to resolve them. It was actually quite nice for a change!
Sep 25, 2013 17:07
This is a room only for old and unanswered questions, not for new questions! Thanks!
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Sep 1, 2023 00:09
Maybe, after even longer, the amount of new mathematics at an undergraduate level will catch up to or sustain the site enough for a wider audience than those who obsess (like me :) ).
Aug 31, 2023 01:27
wow, Shaun has been single-handedly trying to keep the room alive for half a year. appreciate the commitment but can't help but feel that MSE is dying
Oct 20, 2014 13:20
@epimorphic I modified "the crossbow" again slightly so that you can see the tags for the question: Check it out!
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Feb 25, 2015 00:19
answers:1 isanswered:no hasaccepted:no closed:no returns questions with at least one answer but considered unanswered by the system.
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Jun 28, 2013 13:49
For visitors to this room: if you have a few minutes and votes to spare, enter your tag of expertise into this query and consider voting on the answers. Thanks!
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Dec 24, 2014 22:18
The solution ought to be to get more crusaders, not to give up.
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Jun 7, 2013 06:57
For some background on, and some proposed content of this room, see here.
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Nov 9, 2022 20:31
Huh... I'm an owner of this room?
Jun 21, 2021 18:24
To the best of my knowledge, the above question is not a duplicate. Though there are plenty of questions asking how Rudin came up with the value of $q$ (see Choice of $q$ in Baby Rudin's Example 1.1 for the top-level question to which numerous other questions are linked), the particular question that I answered above seems not to have been duplicated.
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Dec 8, 2020 05:20
Has the tracker given up?
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Apr 5, 2022 17:19
@Shaun the bot which displayed the count of unanswered questions hasn't worked since 2020 and there have been no messages of importance for at least four months. Maybe it might be time to let this freeze until someone needs it.
Nov 28, 2018 10:03
And, yeah, you probably guessed that the recent meta thread brought me here :-/. Wish we could revitalize the Crusade. I could support the cause with bounties, but only in the case of "interesting" questions (a can of worms right there, I know). We (=yours truly, a couple of mods, and a few others) have been planning on starting a room specializing in sponsoring top notch stuff. Not launched yet, though.
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Dec 24, 2014 20:27
Woah, almost 75k unanswered?!! I remember questing against the dreaded 23k! We need more manpower, and crossbows. More crossbows is always a valid solution.
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user185131
Dec 1, 2019 12:58
@YaniorWeg I would say that anything less than a month old is probably off-topic for this room. Best would be questions > 6 months old. Of course, there is no hard line that can be drawn for when questions are old enough. The issue with posting very recent questions is that some people might then be encouraged to post their answers here just to fish for upvotes.
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Oct 16, 2019 14:10
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A: What is the the sum of orders of all elements of $S_n$?

Yanior WegAccording to the average order of permutations by Richard Strong, the sum of the orders of all elements of $S_n$ has the following asymptotic: $$n!e^{C\sqrt{\frac{n}{\log(n)}} + O(\frac{\sqrt{n}log(log(n))}{log(n)})}$$ where $C \approx 2.99047$ is a constant.

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Jun 26, 2013 11:48
Time for another cheerful statistic: According to the most conservative estimate, we have answered (or otherwise dealt with) 1300 questions more than would have been the case if the fraction of answered questions to total questions hadn't changed since the inception of this room.
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Mar 3, 2014 14:17
yawn
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Apr 12, 2021 19:57
I see what's going on here, it's quite interesting. But like the constructive feedback room, we are suffering from a lack of popularity. Somebody , whoever owns this room, send a clear chat message and get it pinned on the right. Bring up a meta post saying "how can I publicise a chatroom?" and see from the responses how you can make this better. I think it requires a high amount of initiative and dedication, let's hope you can pull it off! Good night.
Jun 9, 2013 05:09
@AndrewSalmon [tag:calculus] creates . By the way, I upvoted a few of your answers, but not all -- must be careful to not get hit by serial-voting script, which would undo the votes.
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Dec 25, 2020 03:25
Hi all. I was directed here by John Omielan because every now and then I like to go through the unanswered queue and add answers to those without existing ones. (Depending on whether there's something for me to add or not, I might post them as CW or not. Also tend to usually spiff up the question a bit, e.g. better LaTeX, tags, or titles.)

They suggested that I could post some of my own past such answers here, if they didn't get upvoted in a few hours to a few days, in order to help them get out of the queue, depending on whether the OP was active or not on the site.
Oct 17, 2013 12:57
@Lord_Farin Sometimes I feel like stackexchange is like an old mansion built by an eccentric millionaire, and it has a lot of hidden secrets I keep stumbling onto...
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Aug 20, 2013 17:12
@Ovi Please don't use this room to canvass for "more votes." We've got 23000+ questions which have answers with zero votes, and the purpose of this room is to try to deal with that backlog.
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Aug 15, 2013 02:04
Big news: As of now, Aug 15 GMT, 2013, 68 days after this chatroom started, MSE's answering rate finally surpasses 85%! 85.0082685122803% to be precise.
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Jul 20, 2013 16:43
We made it to 85%! Soon will be overtaking Chemistry in the Percent answered category.
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Feb 1, 2020 12:48
I've seen in the least voted questions, that there are a lot of questions with answers but no upvoted answers. It may seem weird
Jan 19, 2020 03:57
@MartinSleziak Yes, that's true. I changed access to my sites and feeds from http to https. I didn't update this tracker, though. It'll run now (though with an incorrect number reported the first day)
user185131
Dec 3, 2019 08:29
@Shaun It's probably not a good idea to post answers to questions that are so recent in this chatroom. Yanior and I discussed this a bit a little while ago: see here
Jan 28, 2014 14:34
"Thinking must never submit itself, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, if not to facts themselves, because, for it, to submit would be to cease to be." Henri Poincare
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Oct 5, 2019 16:40
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A: Is there a formula for $[F_n : V_{\{x^3\}}(F_n)]$?

Yanior Weg$$[F_n : V_{\{x^2\}}(F_n)] = 3^{m + C_m^2 + C_m^3}$$ It was proved by Bartel van der Waerden and Friedrich Wilhelm Levi in "Über eine besonderen Klasse von Gruppen" in 1933.

Sep 28, 2019 11:46
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A: Does the integers modulo $n$ with the addition modulo $n$ form a commutative group of size $n$?

ShaunAs @LordSharktheUnknown describes in the comments . . . No, it's not an error. The inverses of the operation $\oplus$ can be delineated with a few examples, like so: $$\begin{align} 1\oplus (n-1)&=1+(n-1)-n \\ &=0, \\ 2\oplus (n-2)&=2+(n-2)-n\\ &=0, \\ &\vdots \end{align}$$

Sep 20, 2019 01:10
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A: Coxeter presentation of Hyperoctahedral group $(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})^n \rtimes S_n$.

ShaunThis is not an answer per se but a few places to look, according to "Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups (Reprint of Fourth Edition)," by H. S. M. Coxeter and W. O. J. Moser, page 90, are Nielsen, J. (1924b), "Die Isomorphismengruppen der friend Gruppen," Math. Ann. 91, 169-209. This h...

Sep 14, 2019 01:45
Sep 12, 2019 23:15
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A: Direct sum notation: $G = \bigoplus_{\alpha < \beta}\mathbb Zx_{\alpha}.$

ShaunYou're correct . . . ish. The $\alpha$ is not necessarily countable, so your use of "$\Bbb Z\oplus\Bbb Z\oplus \Bbb Z\dots$" is not strictly appropriate (not least because it does not include the $x_{\alpha}$). This is what it really means: "the direct sum over all $\alpha<\beta$ of $\Bbb{Z}x_{...

Sep 11, 2019 19:17
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A: $\Bbb Z_2$ subgroup of $\operatorname{SO}(6)$.

ShaunAs @DerekHolt states in the comments . . . Any diagonal matrix with entries from $\{-1,1\}$ and determinant $1$, excluding the identity, generates a subgroup of $\operatorname{SO}(6)$ isomorphic to $\Bbb Z_2$.

Sep 10, 2019 23:41
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A: Prove that if $\phi: G\to H$ is a homomorphism and $G_{1}\leq G$ is cyclic, then $\phi (G_{1})$ is cyclic.

ShaunYour proof is correct. Well done. The phrasing at the end, though, is a little off; try a new sentence reading "Hence $\phi(G_1)$ is cyclic." It's just a minor suggestion.

Sep 9, 2019 15:22
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A: A subgroup of $\operatorname{sp}(4,\mathbb{Z})$

ShaunSince $$M_2^n= \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & n \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$$ by induction on $n$ for $n\in\Bbb Z$, we have that the subgroup $\langle M_2\rangle $ generated by $M_2$ is isomorphic to the free group $\Bbb Z$.

Aug 5, 2013 19:29
@Omnitic This is not a forum where you beg for attention. This is a forum for dealing with very old and persistent unanswered questions. You might try putting a bounty on your question.
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Jun 28, 2013 07:06
If you type [#274824](http://math.stackexchange.com/q/274824) you get #274824.
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Mar 27, 2016 21:12
Here's a modified "crossbow" which, instead of looking at answers from a particular user, finds unanswered questions from a user: Try it out!
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Jun 20, 2013 20:23
@Lord_Farin You have my sword, my bow and my axe... part time!
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Aug 9, 2015 03:28
oh my goodness! We had a positive day. :)
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Feb 18, 2019 00:58
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