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Beyond the black box

History and Overview 2016-04-29 v1 Computers and Society Numerical Analysis Number Theory
Authors: Jeroen Demeyer , William Stein , Ursula Whitcher
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Abstract

We describe the role the open-source software community plays in fixing bugs through a case study of a problem with integer determinant computations in SageMath.

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@article{arxiv.1604.08472,
  title  = {Beyond the black box},
  author = {Jeroen Demeyer and William Stein and Ursula Whitcher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08472},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Extended version of article to appear in the Notices of the AMS

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