Timeline for how to correct an erroneous edit
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| Dec 15, 2015 at 17:57 | comment | added | roy smith | you are right. i misread the date of the last edit of the question. now i am puzzled as to how my answer helped. perhaps as you say, just the fact my notes were written to be especially clear to my class helped. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 17:43 | comment | added | user9072 | I am not sure what you refer to. The question was not edited at all after you gave the answer. All edits happened before and in any case they seem minimal. All version of every post are available in the revision history I mentioned [except in very very rare cases, or when only present for less than five minutes]. For the specific case see: mathoverflow.net/posts/92354/revisions | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 17:43 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | There was no recent edit, and all edits after the original were minor typo corrections. Evidently your answer was helpful anyway even if you think you merely reproduced Reid's UAG proof, so maybe different words were all it took. The OP by the way seems to have a deleted account and I don't think will be returning, so all puzzlement aside, let's let the answer stand. Your efforts were and are appreciated. :-) | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 17:34 | comment | added | roy smith | I see now however someone has also edited the original question until it is nonsense when combined with my answer! I.e. Miles Reid wrote two books, one with a difficult proof of NN, his commutative algebra book, and another one with an easier proof, his UAG book. The original question complained about the one in the algebra book. The answer I gave is the easier proof in the geometry book. So now the question and answer are rather puzzling! I.e. I now seem to be providing the same argument that was objected to! subsequent editing poses an interesting challenge to historical accuracy. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 17:16 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | You must mean here: mathoverflow.net/a/92434/2926 I fixed it for you, but please check. (BlackAdder evidently meant to be helpful and also asked in the edit summary to check that no errors were introduced in his/her edit.) | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 17:12 | history | edited | roy smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 52 characters in body |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 17:11 | history | edited | user9072 | edited tags | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 17:10 | answer | added | user9072 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 16:49 | history | asked | roy smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |