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5:50 AM

Q: Can someone put in an explanation for the regular-expressions tag?

For example, the analytic-number-theory tag has the following helpful explanation: Questions on the use of the methods of real/complex analysis in the study of number theory. Hopefully someone who misunderstands what analytic number theory is would be dissuaded from using that tag on a qu...

Martin Sleziak

6:24 AM

This was discussed a bit a few days ago:

Mar 23 at 18:11, by barto

And what is regular-expressions for? To me it does not seem a math-related topic.

Mar 24 at 9:35, by Martin Sleziak

@barto Maybe regular-expression could be a synonym of regular-language? Looking at a few recent questions, it seems that most of them are about this.

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barto

7:39 AM

Since there seems to be support for making them synonyms, I have suggested that here.

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Stack Exchange

10:42 AM

Q: Why isn't the book-recommendations tag a synonym for reference-request?

I recently noticed the book-recommendations tag and I've been wondering why it isn't a synonym for the reference-request tag. All I could find here on Meta is that it used to be so, but I couldn't find a reason for this. Furthermore, I see that books and textbooks are both synonyms for reference...

discussion tag-management

Martin Sleziak

11:01 AM

The above is related to the older discussion:

Q: Do we need a tag for Books?

I have found myself using Math.SE for finding books on various subjects. The way I am doing this is writing the subject followed by the word book, or by filtering the search results with the reference-request tag. For example, just this week I have searched "Probability book" to get to some boo...