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Hi, if I look at the list https://projecteuler.net/award=34 of people with the award 'State Of The Art' (solved the twenty-five most recent problems) I see a user 'googler' who has only solved 3 problems. Bug, or am I missing something?

Maybe it’s a permanent award.
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3857#p42173

I think nicolas patrois is right.
It seems that he has reset his progress and solved 3 problems after that.
I removed the awards that remained after this action.

That is correct.

However, this has highlighted a small oversight in the script. I've just discovered that resetting progress cleared all solved problems, but it didn't reset awards (as the warning message explains it should do). I've fixed the script now.

It should be noted, however, that if you have made posts which have earned awards then those awards, along with the posts, will remain, but you will no longer have access to those posts. As the information on the privacy page explains, any posts you make are public. So if you reset or delete your account then they are not automatically removed. I can't imagine anyone wanting to go to such an extreme, but if anyone feels strongly about removing all traces of their identity then they would need to manually delete their posts BEFORE resetting/deleting the account.

Some more typos

http://projecteuler.net/problem=392
postions -> positions
https://projecteuler.net/problem=365
coeffient -> coefficient

FourLegsDriveCat wrote:Some more typos

http://projecteuler.net/problem=392
postions -> positions
https://projecteuler.net/problem=365
coeffient -> coefficient

Thanks, fixed.

Another:
Problem 547 (View Problem)
"For n = 3 there exits only one" -> "For n = 3 there exists only one "

Thanks, fixed.

In the forum for problem 333, my first post (second post on the first page) uses the strike-through mark-up codes [s] and [/s]. For some reason the [s] gets turned into [s=] and so no longer displays as strike-through.

I'm pretty sure it used to work, but I don't see [s] listed on the [url=https://projecteuler.net/about=forum_tags]About.... Forum Tags[/url] help page. Has this mark-up code been removed or changed?

I don't remember having strike-through before, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it seems like a reasonable request so I've added it. Your post (link only works if you've solved the problem) should now appear as expected, and I've added it to the About... Forum Tags page. I hope I've not broken anything else in adding this!?

Problem 473:
representating -> representing

Problem 450:
Extra bullet after "C(2500, 1000) =".

Thanks, FourLegsDriveCat. They have been fixed. And thank you for providing the links too; it saved time.

In https://projecteuler.net/problem=550 third line (first bullet line) "less then" should of course be "less than".

I wouldn't even mention it, but your site seems fastidious in correcting these minor typos when discovered. Which I really appreciate after reading so many internet articles with every error I had drummed out of me in elementary school cropping up in nearly every post.

I continue to love this site and the effort put into it by your crack team!

Thanks, fixed.

Hello,

when posting to a Problem 14 thread, I first got to the crying baby page and when doing so again, Internal Server error. I don't see my post in the thread, although the double post warning keeps popping up. It seems like the post is hanging somewhere in the middle without me being able to access it.

Thanks,
M.

Panic not. If you're seeing the double post message then your post is safely stored in the DB. The forum pages you view are cached versions of the DB. On very rare occasions when the cached page is being generated after a new post is made an error occurs for reasons I do not understand. It will normally resolve itself if another post is made or someone edits an older post, but I can imagine that it is very frustrating for you. Sorry about that. Anyway, I've refreshed the cache and your post is showing up.

Thank you.
No panic suffered. I was wondering whether it would update when someone posted theirs reply, but wasn't sure.

The website is great btw., my new favorite way of procrastination.

Problem 159

The problem name and 2*8 sheet in the problem statement written "Factorisation". I think this is "Factorization".

That's the difference between British English and U.S. English spelling. The site generally adopts British English spelling.

Here's a small niggle that may be more trouble than it's worth to fix.

When following a problem link such as https://projecteuler.net/problem=556 , I sometimes end up at the About PE page instead of the page for that problem. If I then go back and follow the link again, it does work.
I think this happens when my log-in session has become invalid (e.g. by logging in from another computer) so that the first time the link is followed it tries to log me into the old session, that fails and it redirects me to the About page - even though the page I requested is available for guests to view.