> You're on the right track, but need to narrow down the wording some. You're right. I was actually thinking that as I typed it. How about this: when scientis

> You're on the right track, but need to narrow down the wording some. You're right. I was actually thinking that as I typed it. How about this: when scientists take raw input data and use complex processes to convert it (by complex I mean more than you could do with a pocket calculator in a minute), then the programs doing the conversion must be open source, so that others may repeat the work done in processing. I'm not familiar with Mathematica; how complex is the work that it does? And how easy is it to verify that its results are correct?