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Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference



Most of my peer reviewed published research papers involve the software in the
complearn package.  I (and some others) do wind up citing it fairly often FWIW.
Best regards,

Rudi

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> There might be things where software can actually be used as academical
>> contribution to some paper, but all examples I've yet seen were just
>> ridicilously broad.
>
> FWIW, it's not uncommon in my field (discrete mathematics).  In particular,
> there are proofs that rely on very large but finite case bashes, and these
> are often done with the help of a computer (in particular, mathematical
> software).  In this sense, the software contributes directly to the proof
> of a theorem.
>
> b.
>
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