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\author{Bent Bisballe Nyeng <deva@aasimon.org> University of Aarhus}
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\noindent\textit{This exercise is done one a stationary PC (ie. not
  laptop), 64-bit Intel i7 with 4 cores, each with hyper-threading
  enabled (8 hyper-threads in total) and 16GB RAM, running Gentoo
  linux using gcc-11.2. Optimization flags set to -O2}

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