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5:55 AM
@XanderHenderson Good; your crapometer is still working well. =)
@XanderHenderson @amWhy: You both may be surprised that my co-authors think that "log^2 n" is a clear way of expressing "log(n)^2". I'm not sure whether I mentioned before that in the end I insisted on a compromise of "(log n)^2". At least they don't think "log(1+N)" should be written as "log 1+N", but inexplicably they wanted me to write "1 + log n" instead of "log n + 1" (after insisting that I do not write "log(N)+1")...
Traditions and rituals are hard to break away from.
 
6:21 AM
@amWhy Only 4 left.
 
 
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9:34 AM
they're all gone
 
9:46 AM
@amWhy Up for deletion.
 
10:26 AM
@amWhy The asker has added some stuff. Is it better now?
 
@user21820 yes, better. I've voted to reopen.
 
@amWhy Ok thanks. I've added a reopen vote, though I won't have a problem with people closing it as duplicate. (Surely there must be a prior good question with an answer that is better than my terse comments!)
 
 
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12:05 PM
@amWhy @AndrésE.Caicedo @XanderHenderson: Bijection paradox 1 and bijection paradox 2 and equally not useful are up for deletion.
 
@user21820 First two are now gone; last question needs only one more delete vote.
 
@amWhy Thanks!
 
 
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2:15 PM
This HNQ is not a good one.
Nor this.
 
@user21820 @user21820 Sorry, I still don't see what the problem is you find with the third question in that list, it seems a genuine question about the behavior of (standard) Turing machines in non-standard models. It reads very differently from the other two.
 
I have converted this into a comment (sorry, I couldn't fit their username into the same one)
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A: Japanese Temple Problem From 1844

J.G.This is a long comment. The shapes $S,\,T$ share a vertex $A$ where six angles meet, three of them right angles. The other three angles therefore sum to a right angle. Let $\theta$ be the angle in $T$, so the two other acute angles, and the right angle between them from $S$, sum to $\pi-\theta$....

The shapes $S,T$ share a vertex $A$ where $6$ angles meet, $3$ of them right angles. Thus the other $3$ angles sum to $\pi/2$. Let $\theta$ be the angle in $T$, so the two other acute angles and the right angle between them from $S$ sum to $\pi-\theta$. As $\sin\theta=\sin(\pi-\theta)$, $T$ has the same area as $\triangle ABC$ where $BA,AC$ are sides of the upper squares. The challenge then is to show $S$ has that much area too. Let $D$ denote the vertex of $S$ opposite $A$. I suspect we can show the quadrilateral $BACD$ has twice the area of $S$, and also twice the area of $\triangle ABC$. — TheSimpliFire 2 mins ago
 
2:37 PM
@AndrésE.Caicedo It seems that since 2013 his goal has been to prove ZFC inconsistent, and that he has shown no serious effort in learning the basics of logic. Hence the meaningless phrases such as "the model can prove it is non-standard". Feel free to vote as you wish, but I personally would not feed such.
 
3:06 PM
@user21820 I agree that there are issues with the way they go about their agenda (and with the agenda itself), but this one specific question seems fine. I agree it could be phrased less naively.
 
3:39 PM
@AndrésE.Caicedo Thanks. We pretty much agree. I don't believe in rewarding bad faith posts even if I can extract an interesting question from it (after all I can extract interesting stuff from almost anything short of gibberish), but that's my preference. =)
 
@TheSimpliFire Hmm, apparently my flag for 'not an answer' has been disputed.
 
@TheSimpliFire Post here instead. NAA flags are often disputed by people who click-through the reviews.
 
And also funny how the answerer didn't delete their 'answer'/respond after they saw my comment below
 
4:17 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected, repeating characters in answer (161): Cramers decomposition theorem: why are the functions entire and existence of higher moments by user619220 on math.SE
 
Duplicate chain with little effort shown up for deletion here then here then here.
Again. I vaguely recall some English idiom...
@amWhy @XanderHenderson @JoséCarlosSantos: Pure PSQ has 3 reopen votes.
 
4:34 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected, potentially bad keyword in body, toxic body detected, blacklisted user (181): LORD SHARK THE UNKNOWN by Akash Roy on math.SE
 
@SmokeDetector Good bot
 
@CarlMummert: Purported RH proof reference up for deletion.
 
 
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5:56 PM
@user21820 Don't get the reopen votes. Glad the question has been deleted, but having been closed and received 4 downvotes, I don't get why anyone would vote to reopen??
 
6:33 PM
PSQs as usual:
1, 2, 3.
4, 5, 6.
 
6:52 PM
@user21820 Of 1-6, only 5 remains with two delete votes.
 
 
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9:51 PM
@user21820 1-6 All gone now.
 

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