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Re:Why do many math books have so much detail and so little ... by vog on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:02AM (#14339715)
> The top-rated answer is ...

Please use absolute references (a link to the specific answer) instead of fuzzy references that change over time.

Currently, your answer is the top-rated, so which one did you mean? (And even if your answer was not at the top, the top will almost certainly change over time, leading to all kinds of misunderstandings.)

EDIT: It seems that this referred to the top-rated answer on MO, not HN:

https://mathoverflow.net/a/13149/66043

This demonstrates my point even more: Please use absolute references, as fuzzy references make for misunderstandings! (And as my comment received quit a lot of upvotes in the beginning, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thought this was about the top-rated HN answer.)

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Re:Why do many math books have so much detail and so little ... by stormbrew on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:20AM (#14339777)
I took their post to be referring to the top reply on the math exchange site, which may actually be a stable thing at this point as the question is not fresh. I may be wrong though.
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Re:Why do many math books have so much detail and so little ... by Tistron on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:18AM (#14339772)
I'm pretty sure he means the top rated answer in the linked article. Still valid that rating ratios can change though.
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Re:Why do many math books have so much detail and so little ... by triplesec on Monday May 15, 2017 @05:06AM (#14340172)
I took it to mean the (then) top rated answerhere on HN, so I'm glad of clarification.
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Re:Why do many math books have so much detail and so little ... by vog on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:34AM (#14341403)
Why all these downvotes? What's wrong with criticizing ambiguous references?
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Re:Why do many math books have so much detail and so little ... by triplesec on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:09AM (#14341678)
Humans are strange. Perhaps, though it's not certain, if your original comment were couched as a softer request, then that softer approach might not pique certain small subsets so much?
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