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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ This weekend we got word from the paper we submitted to JACM early
surprised that we still hear of it after 3 years. So thanks to the
reviewer for his/her time. The rejection was justified, and I got
something useful out of it, despite a lot of the reviewer's comments
-being disgracefully wrong.
+being disgracefully wrong[^1].
I've written over 30 research papers in my first years at university,
most went from first conception to a paper in less than a month. I had
@@ -44,4 +44,16 @@ Direction is more important than speed.
Cheers,
-Dimitri \ No newline at end of file
+Dimitri
+
+[^1]: The most ironic being that the reviewer (yes, we got only a
+ single reviewer) accuses me of redefining graph theory and using
+ pseudo-mathematics. The reviewer, obviously an engineer, then
+ claims that a _closed walk_ is the same as a _Hamiltonian path_.
+ What the actual fuck. In a walk, vertices can be visited multiple times.
+ All definitions in the paper are taken straight out of Dieter Jungnickels' excellent
+ [Graphs, Networks and Algorithms](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-32278-5).
+ I didn't fully trust engineering reviews and had an actual professor
+ in discrete mathematics review the math before we submitted the
+ paper. I'll just take it that it was justified to add the basic math
+ definitions and build everything up from scratch. \ No newline at end of file