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Numerical Experimentation: A Third Way to Study Nature

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Farge, M. (2007). Numerical Experimentation: A Third Way to Study Nature. In: Kaneda, Y., Kawamura, H., Sasai, M. (eds) Frontiers of Computational Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46375-7_2

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