> > But the naive approach proposed by the trio of mathematicians can lead > one into a false sense of security, because of the amount of code that > is published with a license that permits its incorporation into > closed-source software. I have shown, beyond any reasonable doubt, > that Mathematica 7.0.1 on Solaris used both GMP and ATLAS. > > There is also the possibility that two or more pieces of software make > use of an algorithm that is in itself flawed, or from a paper that has > a typo. > > Exactly. For instance, if the NAUTY/NICE algorithm for graph isomorphism had an algorithmic error, the fact that these are two different implementations would not be relevant.
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