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I recently did a few adjustments to this article. Mainly, I edited the "Intuitive interpretations" section. However, my contribution was only a fraction of the work needed to make the article so complete and well written. The figure in the introduction, for instance, is an outstanding example of
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gives a lot of license to rely on general references for standard material like this. But adding a few more inline citations couldn't hurt (one per section minimum is the general rule of thumb for me if an articles is seeking
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