It was an interesting read. The article (at potential risk of starting a 
firestorm) does seem to suggest that open-source software like Sage is more 
trustworthy for computational proofs as one can (in principle) verify the 
code's logic and can look at the list of known bugs.

Best,
Travis


On Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:16:55 PM UTC-7, William wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 23, 2014 6:23 PM, "kcrisman" <kcri...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Feature article in the Notices:
> > http://www.ams.org/notices/201410/rnoti-p1249.pdf
> > The point, as the authors say, is not about any one system; as we know, 
> any nontrivial software (including good ol' Sage) has plenty of bugs.  
> Happy reading!
> > - kcrisman
> >
>
> Fortunately (?!) their article seems to not mention Sage. 
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