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xdertztoday at 7:33 AM2 repliesview on HN

It is also valuable for scientists as it is often a 'directors cut' version of the paper. Journal submissions are heavy edited and shortened to fit into the page limits.


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emil-lptoday at 8:10 AM

I don't know which field you're talking about, but in general, math and cs journals do not have page limits.

By the way, one of my favorite pastimes is to download the latex source for papers on arxiv and read all the commented-out stuff.

% we should make sure this theorem is actually true

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jdw64today at 7:46 AM

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