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You can link to specific answer, for example, as https://math.stackexchange.com/a/955298 or https://math.stackexchange.com/q/955285#955298 or

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/955285/2-connected-‌graphs-with-a-line-g‌raph-containing-no-h‌amilton-cycle/955298‌#955298

. (The link in your post is to the list of all answers ordered by score - depending in voting, it might change which answer is shown at the top. In this case it does not matter - there is only one answer - but I at least mentioned it, in other situations it might be useful for you to know also link to particular answer.) — Martin Sleziak 55 mins ago

The above information can be also found in this post: Distinguishing between questions and answers in references. (It is on Mathematics Meta. Other questions linked there are also related to this.)

Q: Distinguishing between questions and answers in references.

I have noticed that users in the know can refer us back precisely to a question on a page of our site or to any specific answer they wish, on the same page. Here is an example, where we can click either on "answer" and be sent to Jonas's answer or on "problem" and be sent to AKM's question jus...

I have changed the answer according to your comment. — LeechLattice 45 mins ago

I have copied the previous comments elsewhere - so that they are preserved in case some information from there is useful. But since they are related more to formatting of links and not directly related to the content of the post, now that it has been edited I think we can remove those comments. (I have already deleted my first comment - and later I'll come back and delete also this one.) — Martin Sleziak 19 secs ago

There is also a post on MathOverflow Meta: How do I link to a MO answer?

Q: How do I link to a MO answer?

Sometimes you see in answers or questions a link to an earlier answer to a different question. The url often is a mysterious sequence of digits and letters. How is it obtained? Linking to a question is easy: go to the question and see what is in the adress bar of your browser, but for answers thi...