Acknowledgments
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In addition to the tools and libraries required to compile and run Galacticus, development of Galacticus has benefited from extensive use of the following: `GNU Octave <http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/>`_, `Maxima <http://maxima.sourceforge.net/>`_, `Cantor <http://edu.kde.org/cantor/>`_, `Kile <http://kile.sourceforge.net/>`_, `Emacs <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/>`_, and `Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/>`_. We are grateful to the members of the  GNU Fortran mailing list for invaluable discussions and fixes for compiler problems. We thank John Burkardt for making available the  Bivar algorithm for performing interpolation on data irregularly spaced on a 2D plane, Dima Verner for making available codes to compute various atomic data for astrophysics, Warren Perger for making available his  pFq code for computing generalized hypergeometric functions, and Shanjie Zhang and Jianming Jin made available code for computing the :math:`E_1(z)` exponential integral for complex argument. Chris Power provided instructions for installing Galacticus under Mac OS X. The community of Galacticus users\ [#]_ have provided invaluable feedback and bug reports. Gian Luigi Granato and Laura Silva kindly provided modifications to their `Grasil <http://adlibitum.oats.inaf.it/silva/grasil/syntax.html>`_ code to allow it to read Galacticus outputs.

.. [#] In particular, Christoph Behrens, Xiaolong Du, Jianling Gan, Markus Haider, Harald Höller, Eve Kovacs, Ting-Wen Lan, Adrian Pope, Luiz Felippe Rodrigues, Sergio Sanes, Martin White, and Liyan Xu.

Contributors
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The following people have contributed to the Galacticus project:

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