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> From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>, incal@dataswamp.org,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:17:48 +0200
> 
> For good mathematical libraries, you require a practicing applied
> mathematician.  A programmer is not enough.

That's not true.  A programmer experienced in numerical computations
is more than enough, because the relevant algorithms are known and
described in the literature, so there's no need to invent them.