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Balancing of Chemical Equations Using Matrix Algebra (2015) (iiste.org)
10 points by chaitanyav 3674 days ago
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cyphar 3674 days ago
I'm very confused. This was an example of applications of linear algebra in my first year course on it. Why was this published in an actual journal? Anyone who has gone through the first semester of university already knows that they can do this...
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jpfr 3674 days ago
Scam-Journals are a business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishi...

Enough people succumb to the pressure and publish anything just to look good on the publication count metric.

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rjeli 3674 days ago
sorry, I'm missing the joke. this was homework in my linear algebra class last semester. why was it published in a science journal in 2015?
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knappa 3674 days ago
And why did they misspell Matrices as "Matrixes"?
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chaitanyav 3674 days ago
good question.
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