How can you submit a correction to a problem?
Suppose you discover an error, possibly a typo, in the wording of a Brilliant problem or its solution. How can you submit this information so the wording might get corrected? For example, in Probability is Everywhere on page https://brilliant.org/practice/probability-is-everywhere/?p=3 we find the term "ace of spaces " in two places where the intent was clearly "ace of spades ": How do we report that?
(And a similar problem would be "Suppose one of the answers in a multiple-choice answer has a problem: How can the author fix that? For example, one of my suggested answers to this Problem was originally "Submit it in Community 'Suggest a Correction'" but that somehow got truncated to "Submit it in". Although one can Edit the statement of the Problem there appears to be no way--at least, not for non-Premium members--to Edit the suggested solutions.)
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1 solution
Complete optimists may guess that " no possible solution " is incorrect whereas complete pessimists will guess that is the correct answer--and realists will guess that any well-designed and well-constructed site will have some way to report such problems (and, perhaps, suitable fixes).
After even a brief browse through the few menus and options of the site, almost nobody is likely to guess that there are " many possible solutions ". If there is a built-in solution on the site it's cleverly hidden and finding it is Difficult when we'd expect it to be Easy .
But posting it anywhere possible may draw the attention of someone who can fix that particular problem--and, perhaps, also fix the system (or cause it to be fixed) to provide a more obvious and straightforward way to report such problems (and suggested corrections)--say, by adding a " Report a Problem " option under the Community menu. So this is the most likely, hence " most likely correct " solution in the present incarnation of the site.
If submitting it as a New Problem works, which is yet to be determined, then that is one possible solution and I'm betting that is the one present way to solve this problem; otherwise, if it doesn't work then there may be " no possible solution ". If it does work and someone with edit privileges on the a/n Problem fixes it and adds a better method, then that will become the best--hence " correct "--solution in the new revision of the site.
It may also be possible that Premium members already have an easy way to report problems but we holdouts don't...