* [Why use this project?](#why-use)

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This project

1. provides high quality, rigorous, and robust implementations having common licensing, documentation, tooling, and style

1. provides peer-reviewed portable JavaScript libraries

1. provides modular, well-defined interfaces which may be forked, customized, and combined as needed

1. provides implementations which work cross-platform (Windows and POSIX), cross-environment (Node.js and web browsers), and cross-context (command-line, REPL, and JavaScript applications)

1. provides accurate and performant algorithms and implementations for numeric and scientific computing

1. increases productivity by

- deterring reinvention

- accelerating initial development

- reducing bugs

- reducing long-term maintenance costs

- reducing search, evaluation, and quality-control requirements

1. provides standard reference implementations

1. establishes best practice