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Remove outdated documentation on largest allowed number of dofs. 8692/head
authorSimon Sticko <simon@sticko.se>
Tue, 3 Sep 2019 19:22:11 +0000 (21:22 +0200)
committerSimon Sticko <simon@sticko.se>
Tue, 3 Sep 2019 19:29:27 +0000 (21:29 +0200)
In the module on distributed parallel computing the largest allowed
number of dofs is stated to be the largest attainable value of int.
This no longer true, remove the statement.

doc/doxygen/headers/distributed.h

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  * a thorough description of many of the terms used here, can be found in the
  * @ref distributed_paper "Distributed Computing paper". In particular, the
  * paper shows that the methods discussed in this module scale to thousands of
- * processors and well over a billion degrees of freedom (they may scale to
- * even bigger problems but at the time of writing this, we do not have
- * solvers that are capable of more than $2^{31}$ degrees of freedom due to
- * the use of <code>signed int</code> as index). The paper also gives a
+ * processors and well over a billion degrees of freedom. The paper also gives a
  * concise definition of many of the terms that are used here and in other
  * places of the library related to distributed computing.  The step-40
  * tutorial program shows an application of the classes and methods of this

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