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Ricardo Andrade
Ricardo Andrade
6:46 PM
This is a question aimed at everyone. I was wondering if someone has any suggestions on how to tag this question (and others like it): http://mathoverflow.net/questions/141234/occurrences-of-d-h-lehmers-10-th-degree-polynomial
The problem is that it asks for multidisciplinary occurrences of an object (a polynomial in this case). I am always at a loss on how such a question is to be tagged.
 
Yemon Choi
Yemon Choi
7:42 PM
@RicardoAndrade In view of Borges's infamous taxonomy, I would let this one be. Unless you want to add ultra-specific tags such as 'mahler-measure'. The question will easily be found by anyone searching online who is looking for Lehmer's problem or his example, regardless of the tags
I see that I had already brought up Borges's joke on tea.mathoverflow.net back in the day tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/1071/…
 
Ricardo Andrade
Ricardo Andrade
7:55 PM
@Yemon Choi: Thanks for the input. I am not asking with the specific goal of retagging this particular question. My real goal is to obtain some advice on how to tag such interdisciplinary questions which appear occasionally. Personally, I have no idea how to tag them. Moreover, I would rather shy away from overly specific tags before having at least one generic, descriptive tag for each question.
 

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