A major impediment to solving the problem of high-$T_c$ superconductivity is the ongoing confusion about the magnitude, structure and doping dependence of the superconducting gap, $Delta_0$, and of the mysterious pseudogap found in underdoped samplescite{TallonLoram}. The pseudogap opens around the ($pi$,0) antinodes below a temperature $T^*$ leaving Fermi arcs across the remnant Fermi surfacecite{Kanigel} on which the superconducting gap forms at $T_c$. One thing that seems agreed is that the ratio $2Delta_0/k_BT_c$ well exceeds the BCS value and grows with underdopingcite{Miyakawa1,Miyakawa2}, suggesting unconventional, non-BCS superconductivity. Here we re-examine data from many spectroscopies, especially Raman $B_{1g}$ and $B_{2g}$ scatteringcite{Sacuto,Guyard}, and reconcile them all within a two-gap scenario showing that the points of disagreement are an artefact of spectral-weight loss arising from the pseudogap. Crucially, we find that $Delta_0(p)$, or more generally the order parameter, now scales with the mean-field $T_c$ value, adopting the weak-coupling BCS ratio across the entire phase diagram.
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