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+These are the solutions to the various exercises in the notebook
+as plain julia scripts or as Jupyter notebooks. Please first try
+to do the exercises by yourself before looking up the solutions here.
+
+Each file name starts with the same number as the corresponding notebook
+and the respective exercise number it solves.