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<h1>polymaking</h1>
<h2>Interfacing the geometry software polymake</h2>
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Version 0.8.8</p>
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3 December 2025
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Marc Roeder
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<br />Email: <span class="URL"><a href="mailto:roeder.marc@gmail.com">roeder.marc@gmail.com</a></span>
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<h3>Abstract</h3>
<p>This package provides a very basic interface to the polymake program by Ewgenij Gawrilow, Michael Joswig et al. <a href="chapBib.html#biBpolymake">[GJ]</a>. The polymake program itself is not included.</p>
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<h3>Copyright</h3>
<p>© 2007--2013 Marc Roeder.</p>
<p>This package is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later (at your convenience). See the file "LICENSE" or <span class="URL"><a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</a></span></p>
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<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>
<p>This work has been supported by Marie Curie Grant No. MTKD-CT-2006-042685</p>
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<div class="ContChap"><a href="chap1.html#X8794FBB27B46C08E">1 <span class="Heading">Installation and Preface</span></a>
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<div class="ContChap"><a href="chap2.html#X86C82DCF81362F41">2 <span class="Heading">Polymake interaction</span></a>
<div class="ContSect"><span class="tocline"><span class="nocss"> </span><a href="chap2.html#X83D426D5855D1FD6">2.1 <span class="Heading">Creating Polymake Objects</span></a>
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<div class="ContChap"><a href="chap3.html#X7D9044767BEB1523">3 <span class="Heading">Global Variables</span></a>
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