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In "I. Smears, E. S\"{u}li, \emph{Discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation of nondivergence form elliptic equations with Cord\'{e}s coefficients. SIAM J. Numer Anal., 51(4):2088-2106, 2013}" the authors designed and analysed a…