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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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| 68 | <a href="http://cern.ch/geant4/UserDocumentation/Welcome/IntroductionToGeant4/html/index.html"> |
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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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| 84 | <h2>Building an Application</h2> |
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| 85 | <p>Once you have installed the toolkit, the |
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| 90 | <p>As problems arise, try |
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