Talk:Josephus problem: Difference between revisions

:: FWIW it may not always be necessary to entirely remove the '''<math>''' tag. In most cases you can restore visibility by just removing the two redundant spaces – one at the start and one at the end of the <math> contents, which began to be injected when the cosmetics campaign first kicked off about 6 months ago. In this case for example, '''<big><math> k=3 </math></big>''' causes invisibility on most browsers, but '''<big><math>k=3</math></big>''' (redundant flanking space removed) returns the contents to visibility.

:: The editor who has been introducing these spaces for six months, unaware that they were causing formulae to vanish from most browsers, explained that he found <math> tags easier to read when these spaces were added. Removing them again is enough to fix about 80% of the cases. The remaining cases seem to need a deeper 'undo' of the well-intentioned but under-tested and accidentally destructive cosmetic edit. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 08:14, 23 September 2016 (UTC)