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| 65 | <h1>What is Geant4?</h1> |
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| 66 | <p>Find out in a <a href="about.shtml">brief overview</a> which describes the |
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| 67 | project. More detail is provided in the |
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| 69 | Introduction to Geant4</a>, and in a full journal article |
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| 76 | provided by Geant4 developers.</p> |
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| 77 | <h2>Installing Geant4 </h2> |
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| 82 | Installation Guide</a> for the instructions required to set up Geant4 in |
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| 83 | your computing environment. </p> |
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| 84 | <h2>Building an Application</h2> |
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