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		komali2 on May 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS Ah I see, thank you. Is it some sort of programming syntax or like, scientific publishing notation?

echion on May 9, 2017 [–]

It's regular expression syntax for, roughly, "substitute 'mary' for ' total'", which transforms "sum total" - " total" + "mary" --> "summary.

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