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EndnotES

1

Here the concept of “general purpose” is re-
ferred to the possibility to use the software to
solve different problems in different courses

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2

This is not the only existing algorithm but it
is quite used by researchers and the authors
do not want to present an exhaustive treatise
about DIC, but just introduce it as teaching
experience in engineering courses.

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