2012/09/10 by David Pritchard, Pritchard, David, Troy Vasiga +1
Computer Science · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #K.3.1 #K.3.2
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1209.2166
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