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Comment by lutusp

> You don't need source to audit the results.

In fact, you do. Modern computer mathematical results require full exposure, nothing can be left to the imagination. This is true and understandable.

Going back to the first important computer mathematical result (the solution to the four-color map conjecture¹ in 1976), to be taken seriously, computer math results have been required to be fully transparent.

Imagine auditing a cancer cure without knowing anything about the methods or tools. Same idea.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem

parent lutusp 13 years ago

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