Comments and discussion on Valentin's 4th "Then and Now" - Area

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(01-20-2023 01:56 AM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  which with the delay and the suggestion (not mandatory rule) that people would do best refining their initial solutions before posting them, to reduce the clutter in the thread, essentially prevented that learning process for him.

This being so, I'm not sure if the benefits outdo the disadvantages, so perhaps I will reinstate the 2-3 day delay for future problems, or perhaps I won't. What do you think ?

Since the forum is flexible and EdS2 (or anyone else) can create a sibling thread for "things that do not fit the rules", they could post the iterative refinement in such sibling topics, and only the final solution in the original one.
I agree that reading solutions that grow, like learning the historical process of some scientific/mathematical discoveries , may be easier to understand things.

Though one can have both, the process with the scaffolding, in one thread, and "final solution only, without the scaffolding" in the other (quoting "no self-respecting architect leaves the scaffolding in place after completing the building" of Gauss).

But that's my suggestion.

PS: I disagree with Gauss for the motives mentioned, from the scaffolding one can learn, because not everyone can make large comprehension steps at once, so seeing more steps could be beneficial.