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Re:Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS by effie on Monday May 08, 2017 @07:33PM (#14296546)
That's the geekspeak for '"sum total" should be rephrased into "summary"'.
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Re:Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS by komali2 on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @01:33PM (#14302132)
Ah I see, thank you. Is it some sort of programming syntax or like, scientific publishing notation?
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Re:Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS by echion on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:25PM (#14303504)
It's regular expression syntax for, roughly, "substitute 'mary' for ' total'", which transforms "sum total" - " total" + "mary" --> "summary.
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