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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. The calculated intensities are
adjusted by a Le Bail fit. 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.
                                                 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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