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Question: How do you call a subsequence of consecutive elements ?

I guess that many people working in TCS have once wished for concise and unambiguous terms for “contiguous subsequence” and “not necessarily contiguous (but still order-preserving) subsequence,” and therefore the question is reasonably interesting to TCS researchers. I believe that this question should be on topic in a similar sense that soft questions are on topic.

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  • $\begingroup$ I'll wait to see what others say. I'm happy to open the question if there is consensus. $\endgroup$
    – Dave Clarke Mod
    Commented Mar 14, 2011 at 15:51
  • $\begingroup$ I agree with Tsuyoshi: it's not off-topic. Unfortunately, I don't know whether there are any good answers. $\endgroup$
    – Peter Shor
    Commented Mar 14, 2011 at 17:06
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    $\begingroup$ By popular demand, I reopened the question. $\endgroup$
    – Dave Clarke Mod
    Commented Mar 14, 2011 at 17:16
  • $\begingroup$ @Dave: Can you post your last comment as an answer so that I can accept it? $\endgroup$
    – Tsuyoshi Ito
    Commented Mar 14, 2011 at 19:10

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By popular demand, I reopened the question.

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