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                                                               Max Neunhoeffer
                                                                  Felix Noeske

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This chapter gives a short introduction and explains the philosophy
behind the package.

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<Chapter Label="intro">
<Heading>Introduction</Heading>

<Section Label="philosophy">
<Heading>Philosophy</Heading>

This package is about the Schreier-Sims algorithm and base and strong
generating sets for arbitrary finite groups.
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<Section Label="overview">
<Heading>Overview over this manual</Heading>

Chapter <Ref Chap="install"/> describes the installation of this package.

Chapter <Ref Chap="StabChains"/> desribes the core functionality of the
package, namely the computation and usage of stabiliser chains.

Chapter <Ref Chap="Backtrack"/> describes some methods using backtrack
search. This part of the package is not yet fully developed and is
subject to change in later versions.

Finally, Chapter <Ref Chap="examples"/>
shows instructive examples for the usage of this package.
As of now, the number of shown examples is zero.

</Section>

<Section Label="feedback">
<Heading>Feedback</Heading>

For bug reports, feature requests and suggestions, please use our
<URL Text="issue tracker">https://github.com/gap-packages/genss/issues</URL>.

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