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  1. Department of Mathematics, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, 05439, USA

    Jim Hefferon

  2. Department of Mathematics, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, USA

    Albert Schueller

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Hefferon, J., Schueller, A. Writing an Open Text. Math Intelligencer 38, 6–9 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-015-9606-1

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