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            McMaille is a program for indexing by Monte Carlo
                (Maille in french = cell in english)
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The 2-theta peak positions extracted from a peak hunting program are
used together with the intensities in order to build a pseudo powder
pattern to which are compared patterns calculated from the cell parameters 
proposed by a Monte Carlo process. Peak shapes are columnar in version 3.0.
The best cells are refined, more or less. This is similar to the (still 
unavailable ?) software by B.M. Karuki et al., J. Synchrotron Rad. 6. (1999) 
87-92, though the latter uses a genetic algorithm and the raw data.
                                                 Armel Le Bail
                                                 alb@cristal.org
                                                 September 2002
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           See the manual : McMaille.html included in the package
             or available at http://www.cristal.org/mcmaille/
                or at http://sdpd.univ-lemans.fr/mcmaille/

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