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[a12683] | 2 | @comment $Id: COPYING.texi,v 1.36 2008-09-24 08:21:17 Singular Exp $ |
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[2f786f] | 3 | @comment this file contains the copyright notice on Singular |
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[a94090] | 4 | @ifclear VERSION |
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[f36635] | 5 | @include version.texi |
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[a94090] | 6 | @end ifclear |
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[2f786f] | 7 | |
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[5ac141] | 8 | @cindex copyright |
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[91dbdf] | 9 | @cindex factory |
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| 10 | @cindex GMP |
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| 11 | @cindex MP |
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| 12 | @cindex readline |
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| 13 | @cindex libfac |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | @center @sc{Singular} version @value{VERSION} |
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[f36635] | 16 | @center @uref{http://www.uni-kl.de/,,University of Kaiserslautern} |
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| 17 | @center @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/,,Department of Mathematics} and @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~zca/,,Centre for Computer Algebra} |
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[7bd122b] | 18 | @center Authors: @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~greuel,,G.-M. Greuel}, @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~pfister,,G. Pfister}, @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~hannes,,H. Schoenemann} |
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[91dbdf] | 19 | |
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[b85b62] | 20 | @center Copyright @copyright{} 1986-2007 |
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[91dbdf] | 21 | @sp 2 |
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[f36635] | 22 | @center @strong{NOTICE} |
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[91dbdf] | 23 | |
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[b297cc5] | 24 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| 25 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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[ab53b7] | 26 | the Free Software Foundation ( version 2 or version 3 of the License ). |
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[b297cc5] | 27 | |
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[3de58c] | 28 | The following software used with @sc{Singular} have their own copyright: |
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[b297cc5] | 29 | the omalloc library, the readline library, |
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| 30 | the Gnu Multiple Precision Library (GMP), |
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[7bd122b] | 31 | NTL: A Library for doing Number Theory (NTL), |
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[b297cc5] | 32 | the Multi Protocol library (MP), the |
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[a12683] | 33 | Singular-Factory library, the Singular-libfac library, |
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| 34 | surfex, and, |
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[98b5a7] | 35 | for the Windows distributions the Cygwin DLL and the Cygwin tools (Cygwin), and the |
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[b297cc5] | 36 | XEmacs editor (XEmacs). |
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[91dbdf] | 37 | |
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[7bd122b] | 38 | Their copyrights and licenses can be found in the accompanying files |
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[b297cc5] | 39 | which are distributed along with these packages. |
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[ab53b7] | 40 | (Since version 3-0-3 of @sc{Singular}, all parts have GPL or LGPL |
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[9b3858] | 41 | as (one of) their licences.) |
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[91dbdf] | 42 | |
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[b297cc5] | 43 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 44 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 45 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 46 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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[91dbdf] | 47 | |
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[b297cc5] | 48 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| 49 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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| 50 | Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA |
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[ec7299] | 51 | (see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html,,GPL}) |
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[b297cc5] | 52 | |
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| 53 | Please send any comments or bug reports to |
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| 54 | @email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}. |
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[2afef4] | 55 | |
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[ab53b7] | 56 | If you want to be informed of new releases, |
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| 57 | please register yourself as a @sc{Singular} user by using the |
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[fc94e1a] | 58 | registration form on the @sc{Singular} homepage |
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| 59 | @uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}. |
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[3de58c] | 60 | If for some reason you cannot access the registration form, you |
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| 61 | can also register by sending an email to |
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[fc94e1a] | 62 | @email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de} |
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| 63 | with subject line @code{register} and body containing the following data: |
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| 64 | your name, email address, organisation, country and platform(s). |
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| 65 | |
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[7bd122b] | 66 | |
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[ab53b7] | 67 | For the citation of @sc{Singular} see |
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[8cb38d] | 68 | @uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/how_to_cite.html}, |
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[e3663f1] | 69 | for information on how to cite Singular. |
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[91dbdf] | 70 | |
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[ab53b7] | 71 | You can also support @sc{Singular} by informing us about |
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| 72 | your result obtained by using @sc{Singular}. |
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| 73 | |
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[e3663f1] | 74 | @heading Availability |
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[2f786f] | 75 | |
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[91dbdf] | 76 | The latest information about @sc{Singular} is always available from |
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[8cb38d] | 77 | @uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de}. |
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[6fc50d] | 78 | @ifset singularmanual |
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[91dbdf] | 79 | The program @sc{Singular} and the above mentioned parts are available via |
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[15e2754] | 80 | anonymous ftp through the following addresses: |
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[91dbdf] | 81 | @table @asis |
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[b297cc5] | 82 | @item GMP, libreadline |
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[bde8dd] | 83 | @copyright{} Free Software Foundation |
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[f36635] | 84 | @* @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu} or its mirrors |
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[91dbdf] | 85 | @item MP |
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[bde8dd] | 86 | @copyright{} Gray/Kajler/Wang, Kent State University |
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[33bbf9] | 87 | @* @uref{http://www.symbolicnet.org/areas/protocols/mp.html} |
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[98b5a7] | 88 | @item NTL |
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| 89 | @copyright{} Victor Shoup |
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[672950e] | 90 | @* @uref{http://www.shoup.net} |
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[b297cc5] | 91 | @item Singular-Factory |
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[91dbdf] | 92 | @copyright{} Greuel/Stobbe, University of Kaiserslautern: |
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[b297cc5] | 93 | @* @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Factory} |
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| 94 | @item Singular-libfac |
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| 95 | @copyright{} Messollen, University of Saarbr@"ucken: |
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| 96 | @* @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/Libfac} |
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[a12683] | 97 | @item surfex |
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| 98 | @copyright{} Oliver Labs (2001-2008), Stephan Holzer (2004-2005) |
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| 99 | @* @uref{http://surfex.AlgebraicSurface.net} |
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[b297cc5] | 100 | @item @sc{Singular} binaries and sources |
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[f36635] | 101 | @uref{ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/} or via a |
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[a22eba] | 102 | WWW brow@-ser from |
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[bde8dd] | 103 | @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/} |
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[3de58c] | 104 | @item Cygwin |
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[7bd122b] | 105 | @uref{http://www.cygwin.com/} |
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[bde8dd] | 106 | @item Xemacs |
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| 107 | @uref{http://www.xemacs.org} |
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[91dbdf] | 108 | @end table |
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[6fc50d] | 109 | @end ifset |
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[91dbdf] | 110 | |
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[e3663f1] | 111 | @heading Acknowledgements |
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[91dbdf] | 112 | |
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| 113 | The development of @sc{Singular} is directed and coordinated by |
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[fd7129] | 114 | Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans |
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[afeddb] | 115 | Sch@"onemann. |
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[fd7129] | 116 | |
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[8752d8] | 117 | @cindex Contributors |
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| 118 | @cindex Authors |
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| 119 | @cindex Greuel, Gert-Martin |
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| 120 | @cindex Pfister, Gerhard |
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[53c00b] | 121 | @cindex Sch@"onemann, Hans |
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| 122 | |
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[3de58c] | 123 | Currently, the @sc{Singular} team has the following members: |
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[3f93eb] | 124 | Michael Brickenstein, |
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[aadade] | 125 | Wolfram Decker, |
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[b85b62] | 126 | Alexander Dreyer, |
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[d4d4f7] | 127 | Anne Fr@"uhbis-Kr@"uger, |
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[f357d6e] | 128 | Kai Kr@"uger, |
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[7bd122b] | 129 | Viktor Levandovskyy, |
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[b85b62] | 130 | Oleksandr Motsak, |
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[1d4fb8] | 131 | Mathias Schulze, |
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[91dbdf] | 132 | and |
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[8d1766] | 133 | Oliver Wienand. |
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[3f93eb] | 134 | @cindex Brickenstein, Michael |
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[aadade] | 135 | @cindex Decker, Wolfram |
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[b85b62] | 136 | @cindex Dreyer, Alexander |
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[d4d4f7] | 137 | @cindex Fr@"uhbis-Kr@"uger, Anne |
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[53c00b] | 138 | @cindex Kr@"uger, Kai |
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[7bd122b] | 139 | @cindex Levandovskyy, Viktor |
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[b85b62] | 140 | @cindex Motsak, Oleksandr |
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[1d4fb8] | 141 | @cindex Schulze, Mathias |
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[cbf7d6] | 142 | @cindex Wienand, Oliver |
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[53c00b] | 143 | |
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[8ad455] | 144 | Former members of the @sc{Singular} team are: |
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[cbf7d6] | 145 | Olaf Bachmann, |
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[b85b62] | 146 | Christoph Lossen, |
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[b297cc5] | 147 | Wolfgang Neumann, |
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[b85b62] | 148 | Wilfred Pohl, |
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[b297cc5] | 149 | Jens Schmidt, |
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[aadade] | 150 | Thomas Siebert, |
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[cbf7d6] | 151 | R@"udiger Stobbe, |
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| 152 | Eric Westenberger |
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| 153 | and |
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| 154 | Tim Wichmann. |
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| 155 | @cindex Bachmann, Olaf |
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[b85b62] | 156 | @cindex Lossen, Christoph |
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[b297cc5] | 157 | @cindex Neumann, Wolfgang |
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[b85b62] | 158 | @cindex Pohl, Wilfred |
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[b297cc5] | 159 | @cindex Schmidt, Jens |
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[aadade] | 160 | @cindex Siebert, Thomas |
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[b297cc5] | 161 | @cindex Stobbe, R@"udiger |
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[cbf7d6] | 162 | @cindex Westenberger, Eric |
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| 163 | @cindex Wichmann, Tim |
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[91dbdf] | 164 | |
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[b297cc5] | 165 | Further contributions to @sc{Singular} were made by: |
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| 166 | Thomas Bayer, |
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| 167 | Isabelle Bermejo, |
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[034fb4] | 168 | Markus Becker, |
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[b85b62] | 169 | Stas Bulygin, |
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[aadade] | 170 | Kai Dehmann, |
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[b85b62] | 171 | Marcin Dumnicki, |
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[e3663f1] | 172 | Stephan Endra@ss{}, |
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[aadade] | 173 | Jose Ignacio Farran, |
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[034fb4] | 174 | Vladimir Gerdt, |
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[b297cc5] | 175 | Philippe Gimenez, |
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[fd7129] | 176 | Christian Gorzel, |
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[aadade] | 177 | Hubert Grassmann, |
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| 178 | Fernando Hernando, |
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[b297cc5] | 179 | Agnes Heydtmann, |
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[e3663f1] | 180 | Dietmar Hillebrand, |
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[b297cc5] | 181 | Tobias Hirsch, |
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[3d1107] | 182 | Manuel Kauers, |
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[4874ab4] | 183 | Simon King, |
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[aadade] | 184 | Anen Lakhal, |
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[fd7129] | 185 | Martin Lamm, |
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[4874ab4] | 186 | Santiago Laplagne, |
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[e94158] | 187 | Gregoire Lecerf, |
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[aadade] | 188 | Francisco Javier Lobillo, |
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[b85b62] | 189 | Thomas Markwig, |
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[f357d6e] | 190 | Bernd Martin, |
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[b297cc5] | 191 | Michael Me@ss{}ollen, |
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[aadade] | 192 | Andrea Mindnich, |
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[4874ab4] | 193 | Jorge Martin Morales, |
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[b297cc5] | 194 | Thomas N@"u@ss{}ler, |
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[034fb4] | 195 | Carlos Rabelo, |
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| 196 | Alfredo Sanchez-Navarro, |
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[d4d4f7] | 197 | Henrik Strohmayer, |
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[7fa5b14] | 198 | Christian Stussak, |
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[aadade] | 199 | Imade Sulandra, |
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[034fb4] | 200 | Christine Theis, |
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[d4d4f7] | 201 | Enrique Tobis, |
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[034fb4] | 202 | Alberto Vigneron-Tenorio, |
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[8d1766] | 203 | Moritz Wenk, |
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[034fb4] | 204 | Denis Yanovich, |
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[032837] | 205 | Oleksandr Iena. |
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[d4d4f7] | 206 | @cindex Bayer, Thomas |
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| 207 | @cindex Bermejo, Isabelle |
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[034fb4] | 208 | @cindex Becker, Markus |
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[b85b62] | 209 | @cindex Bulygin, Stas |
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[aadade] | 210 | @cindex Dehmann, Kai |
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[b85b62] | 211 | @cindex Dumnicki, Marcin |
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[d4d4f7] | 212 | @cindex Endra@ss{}, Stephan |
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[aadade] | 213 | @cindex Farran, Jose Ignacio |
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[034fb4] | 214 | @cindex Gerdt, Vladimir |
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[d4d4f7] | 215 | @cindex Gimenez, Philippe |
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| 216 | @cindex Gorzel, Christian |
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[aadade] | 217 | @cindex Grassmann, Hubert |
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[034fb4] | 218 | @cindex Hernando, Fernando |
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[d4d4f7] | 219 | @cindex Heydtmann, Agnes |
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| 220 | @cindex Hillebrand, Dietmar |
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| 221 | @cindex Hirsch, Tobias |
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[032837] | 222 | @cindex Iena, Oleksandr |
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[3d1107] | 223 | @cindex Kauers, Manuel |
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[4874ab4] | 224 | @cindex King, Simon |
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[aadade] | 225 | @cindex Lakhal, Anen |
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[d4d4f7] | 226 | @cindex Lamm, Martin |
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[4874ab4] | 227 | @cindex Laplagne, Santiago |
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[e94158] | 228 | @cindex Lecerf, Gregoire |
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[034fb4] | 229 | @cindex Lobillo, Javier |
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[b85b62] | 230 | @cindex Markwig, Thomas |
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[d4d4f7] | 231 | @cindex Martin, Bernd |
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| 232 | @cindex Me@ss{}ollen, Michael |
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[aadade] | 233 | @cindex Mindnich, Andrea |
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[4874ab4] | 234 | @cindex Morales, Jorge Martin |
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[d4d4f7] | 235 | @cindex N@"u@ss{}ler, Thomas |
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[034fb4] | 236 | @cindex Rabelo, Carlos |
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| 237 | @cindex Sanchez-Navarro, Alfredo |
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[d4d4f7] | 238 | @cindex Strohmayer, Henrik |
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[7fa5b14] | 239 | @cindex Stussak, Christian |
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[aadade] | 240 | @cindex Sulandra, Imade |
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[d4d4f7] | 241 | @cindex Tobis, Enrique |
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[034fb4] | 242 | @cindex Theis, Christine |
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| 243 | @cindex Vigneron-Tenorio, Alberto |
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[d4d4f7] | 244 | @cindex Wenk, Moritz |
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| 245 | @cindex Yanovich, Denis |
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[53c00b] | 246 | |
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[91dbdf] | 247 | We should like to acknowledge the financial support given by |
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| 248 | the Volkswagen-Stiftung, |
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| 249 | the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
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[e113e3] | 250 | and the Stiftung f@"ur Innovation des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz |
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| 251 | to the @sc{Singular} project. |
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[91dbdf] | 252 | |
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