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Martin Sleziak
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The tag is already synonym of .

It seems logical that the tag should also be a synonym. (And maybe also could be created and added to the synonyms; so that some user does not create this tag as a separate tag in the future.) As I do not have sufficiently high score in to suggest a synonym, I am posting this suggestion here.

The recent revisions of (least-common-multiple) tag-excerpt and tag-wiki specifically mention that the notion of lcm exists not only for integers but also in rings. (And that the tag is also suitable for this usage.) I don't think this should cause a problem, since rings are also mentioned in the tag-wiki for divisibility. (Although it not explicitly mentioned at the current version of tag-excerpt.) Note that the tag-wiki for divisibility explicitly mentions both gcd and lcm.

EDIT: quid added this to the suggested synonyms. So it is now possible to vote on these synonyms here.

EDIT2: The tag was made a synonym of as a result of this discussion: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/10998/on-the-gcd-tag. In this post I merely suggested that should be treated similarly as .
If (gcd) being synonym of (divisibility) seems problematic to some users (as the comments suggests), it should be probably discussed in a separate thread. (I am not sure what happens to the questions tagged by the synonymous tags if a tag-synonym is removed from the system. And a synonym definitely should not be removed without discussing such step first.)

Martin Sleziak
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