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Wiping out brackets is problematic

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Summary by Jdlrobson

We decided to only wipe brackets out which contain at least one space.

Jdlrobson (talkcontribs)

Consider the following example:

A googolplex is the number 10^googol, or equivalently, 10^(10¹⁰⁰).

Wiping out brackets gives us the very confusing summary:

A googolplex is the number 10^googol, or equivalently, 10.

Edited by Quiddity (WMF) 20:43, 11 August 2017 7 years ago

Jdlrobson (talkcontribs)

We can look for spaces in parenthetical and only remove them if there is one to avoid this issue.