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As of April 4, 2012, there have been 16,496 registered users to MathOverflow,<ref name=MO>{{official website|http://www.mathoverflow.net}}</ref> most of whom have been in the United States (35%), India (12%), and the United Kingdom (6%).<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.sharenator.com/w/mathoverflow.net |title = Sharenator MO Statistics }}</ref> So far, 39,768 questions have been posted. Questions are answered an average of 3.9 hours after they are posted, and "Acceptable" answers take an average of 5.01 hours.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~dzb/slides/MO_slides.pdf |author = David Zureick-Brown |title = MathOverflow (presentation slides) |date = 29 March 29 2011 }}</ref>

== QuotesReception ==

*[[Terence Tao]] characterized it as "venerable newsgroup ''sci.math'', but with more modern, '[[Web 2.0]]' features."<ref>{{cite web |url = http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/math-overflow/ |title = Math Overflow |author = Terence Tao |date = 20 October 2009 }}</ref>

*[[John C. Baez]] writes that "website 'Math Overflow' has become a universal clearinghouse for math questions".<ref>{{cite web |author = [[John C. Baez]] |url = http://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300333p.pdf |title = Math Blogs |publisher = ''[[Notices of the American Mathematical Society|Notices of the AMS]]'' |date = March 2010 }}</ref>

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*[[Jordan Ellenberg]] comments that the website "offers a constantly changing array of new questions" and is "addictive" in a "particularly pure form", as he compares it to the [[Polymath Project]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/why-math-overflow-works-and-why-it-might-not/ |title = Why Math Overflow works, and why it might not |author = Jordan Ellenberg |date = 17 October 2009 }}</ref>

*Jared Keller in [[The Atlantic]] writes, "Math Overflow is almost an anti-social network, focused solely on productively addressing the problems posed by its users." He quotes Scott Morrison saying "Mathematicians as a whole are surprisingly skeptical of many aspects of the modern Internet... In particular, things like [[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], etc. are viewed as enormous wastes of time."<ref>{{cite web |author = Jared Keller |url = http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/beyond-facebook-how-the-worlds-mathematicians-organize-online/63422/ |title = Beyond Facebook: How the World's Mathematicians Organize Online |publisher = ''[[The Atlantic]]'' |date = 28 September 2010 }}</ref>

*Anton Geraschenko writes, “One thing that I like to point out in conversation about MO is that putting a question or answer out there without posing it towards some specific person often leads to meaningful interactions with awesome people. Some people start collaborations based on MO questions, but even if you don’t, you get to know a lot of people pretty well, which feels great. Also, there is something about interacting with famous people on MO that humanizes my internal representation of them.”

== See also ==