# The Number Of Followers...

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I just discovered something. No matter how many followers you have, you can't see more than $100$ of them in the followers page under your profile. Is this a bug? Or is this the intended behavior? This means if you have more than a hundred followers, some of them will not be displayed on the page. How is this determined?

The image above is a screenshot of my "followers" page and search bar is showing that the term "followers" appears $102$ times on the page. If we discount the ones on top and the left of the page, we're left with $100$ followers when clearly I have more.

So, is this a bug?

Thank you.

PS: I've tried this with other users' profiles as well. Even if this is the intended behavior, it seems a bit odd to me.

Note by Mursalin Habib
5 years, 12 months ago

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Mursalin -- nothing escapes your eyes! We only show 100 profiles for now. That is a shortcut that we took in order to keep the page fast. Someday in the (near) future, we will add a "load more" feature.

Staff - 5 years, 12 months ago

Mursalin -- nothing escapes your eyes!

Was that a compliment? :)

That is a shortcut that we took in order to keep the page fast.

That is really considerate.

Someday in the (near) future, we will add a "load more" feature.

Good to know!

- 5 years, 11 months ago

It was a compliment!

Staff - 5 years, 11 months ago

Heaven knows that if someone were trying to load my "Following" page, that it would surely crash their computer. :)

- 5 years, 11 months ago

You should think about what would happen if someone wanted to see the followers page of the best of algebra!

- 5 years, 11 months ago

Silas, this keen observation is what makes a great mathematician.

- 5 years, 11 months ago

So true.

Staff - 5 years, 11 months ago

who will solve this: In the series of odd numbers 1+ 3 + 5 – 7 – 9 – 11+13 +15 +17 – 19 – 21– 23 ... the signs alternate every three terms, as shown. What is the sum of the first 360 terms of the series?

- 5 years, 11 months ago

-1080.

- 5 years, 11 months ago

how did you solve that?

- 5 years, 11 months ago

Make groups of 6 consecutive terms! So there will be $\frac{360}{6}=60$ groups! And some of each group will be $-18$...

So sum$=60×-18=-1080$

- 4 years, 11 months ago