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Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?

Missing documentation and obsolete environments force participants in the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge to get creative.
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What Nicolas Rougier needed was a disk. Not a pocket-sized terabyte hard drive, not a compact disc — an actual floppy disk.

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Nature 584, 656-658 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02462-7

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