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Comment author: Unnamed 02 November 2012 05:49:32AM 9 points [-]

A computer-generated nonsense math paper by "Marcie Rathke", which was created using Nate Eldredge's Mathgen program, was accepted for publication in the journal Advances in Pure Mathematics. However, it will not actually be published, because Eldredge did not want to pay the $500 publication fee. Mathgen is also not capable of making the revisions recommended by the reviewer, such as:

(3) In part 2, the author gives the main results. On theorem 2.4, I consider that the author should give the corresponding proof.