I have seen much worse than two pages of boring computations of errir 
estimates that lead to potentially useful code published in arxiv. I would 
go for that.

El viernes, 8 de agosto de 2014 10:48:20 UTC+2, Clemens Heuberger escribió:
>
> In http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/16782, I propose a patch implementing 
> the 
> Riemann Zeta function for complex intervals. 
>
> For bounding the errors, I needed some rather boring estimates, in 
> particular 
> explicitly bounding errors in Taylor's theorem in my situation. These 
> boring 
> estimates now exist in the form of a TeX file (translating to 2 pages PDF) 
> on my 
> hard disk. 
>
> I suppose that this is not an ideal solution, because reviewers might want 
> to 
> check what I did without having to do everything by themselves, and the 
> same 
> holds for future extensions/bugfixes etc. 
>
> I find none of the following possibilities very appealing: 
>
> - keep it on my hard disk (that is probably the traditional approach in 
> mathematical papers, the boring details are somewhat buried and 
> inaccessible). 
>
> - Moving the TeX-code into the docstring (we are speaking about 2 pages, 
> after all). 
>
> - Moving the TeX-code as comments into the code (same problem and you'd 
> have to 
> read the TeX code instead of a compiled version). 
>
> - Putting it into arxiv (way to boring content for arxiv). 
>
> - Putting it onto my web page and inserting a link to it (may be a 
> compromise) 
>
> Is there any canonical place for such background documentation, possibly 
> within 
> the sage source tree? 
>

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