2.47.1 Top new questions this week

2.47.1.1 Why does the sum of a partition of 1 not equal 1?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/342947/why-does-the-sum-of-a-partition-of-1-not-equal-1

In this MWE, I have five elements on a line: three figures with 32% each, and two spaces with 2% each. 3*32+2*2=100. So I expect these items to fit on one line: 
\documentclass{article} 
...
 

- asked by bers (10 votes), answered by Mico (16 votes)

2.47.1.2 How to write Superexponents

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/342450/how-to-write-superexponents

How do I write stacked up exponents? For example, I tried doing $2^2^65533$ and it yelled at me :( 
I know about \uparrow but it's not what I am looking for.
 

- asked by A curious one (10 votes), answered by ebo (11 votes)

2.47.1.3 Making custom Koch decoration with angle parameter in Tikz

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/341982/making-custom-koch-decoration-with-angle-parameter-in-tikz

So I'm trying to draw a fractal similar to the Koch Snowflake, so I want to define my own decoration that does the same thing but lets you specify the angle. For example in this picture the angle is  ...
 

- asked by base12masterrace (10 votes), answered by Mark Wibrow (9 votes)

2.47.1.4 Looking for an (old?) problem with \\

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/342856/looking-for-an-old-problem-with

(No, I'm not looking for a solution. I'm really looking for a problem.) 
I remember that, a long time ago, I encountered a situation where 
the \\ (newline) command would insert a blank line if the  ...
 

- asked by Uwe (9 votes), answered by David Carlisle (13 votes)

2.47.1.5 A Mechanical System in Tikz

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/342359/a-mechanical-system-in-tikz

I am trying to draw an image similar to those in this thread: 
Mechanical Systems in LaTeX 
If you look at Jake's answer though, I want to modify it a little... 
\begin{tikzpicture}[] 
...
 

- asked by lmsavk (9 votes), answered by Dai Bowen (9 votes)

2.47.1.6 Change syntax of macro, to go inside braces

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/342688/change-syntax-of-macro-to-go-inside-braces

If I have a macro that works like this, inside the braces: 
{\SomeMacro applies to this text} 
I can easily do this: 
\newcommand\MySomeMacro[1]{{\SomeMacro #1}} 
Then the new command goes outside  ...
 

- asked by RobtA (8 votes), answered by Manuel (7 votes)

2.47.1.7 How to prepend and append tokens to a macro definition in the current scope only?

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/342506/how-to-prepend-and-append-tokens-to-a-macro-definition-in-the-current-scope-only

I am facing the problem of both prepending and appending some tokens to the definition of a macro that does not take arguments. 
I found out that in the LaTeX2e kernel there is the macro  ...
 

- asked by user120378 (8 votes), answered by Joseph Wright (6 votes)