# How to get your question answered

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**Created:** [15 September 2020 16:33 UTC](https://bempp.discourse.group/t/how-to-get-your-question-answered/15 "2020-09-15T16:33:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [15 September 2020 16:33 UTC](https://bempp.discourse.group/t/how-to-get-your-question-answered/15/1 "2020-09-15T16:33:50Z")

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## :bempp: Welcome

Welcome to the Bempp Discourse. Before asking your first question, we recommend that you read this guide. Following the guidance here will make it more likely that you get a useful answer to your question.

Before asking a question, you should:

- Use the search feature to see if a similar question has been asked.

To help us answer your question, you should:

- Give your post a title that makes it clear what you are asking about.
- When asking about code, you should post a minimal working example (MWE) of a code that fails.
- Include any error messages that your MWE gives.
- Include the version of Bempp you are using.

## How to make a MWE

A good example of a MWE is the following, as it is the shortest code that causes an error:

```auto
from bempp.api import shapes
grid = bempp.api.shapes.sphere[0.1]

```

Alongside this, you should post the error it causes:

```auto
File "mwe.py", line 2, in <module>
    grid = shapes.sphere[0.1]
TypeError: 'function' object is not subscriptable

```

This is a good MWE because:

- It is the shortest possible code that causes this error
- It includes everything needed, so can be copied and pasted and run immediately
- The error messages are included

(In this example, the error can be fixed by replacing the square brackets in `sphere[0.1]` with round brackers: `sphere(0.1)`.)

## Formatting your post

You can use [markdown formatting](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet) to format your post.

You can include maths in your post by including LaTeX between dollar signs. For example, `$(x-3)(x+2)=x^2-x-6$` is displayed as (x-3)(x+2)=x^2-x-6.

To include code in your code, put three backticks (```) before and after your code block. Short code snippets can be included in a paragraph by placing one backtick before and after the code.

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**Post date:** [15 September 2020 16:34 UTC](https://bempp.discourse.group/t/how-to-get-your-question-answered/15/2 "2020-09-15T16:34:17Z")

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