Mathgen paper accepted! | That's Mathematics!
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Summary:
"On August 3, 2012, a certain Professor Marcie Rathke of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople submitted a [randomly-generated] article to Advances in Pure Mathematics, one of the many fine journals put out by Scientific Research Publishing....After a remarkable turnaround time of only 10 days, on August 13, 2012, the editors were pleased to inform Professor Rathke that her submission had been accepted for publication....As an open access journal, APM naturally imposes a “processing charge” on its authors, which for this paper would amount to US$500.00. Unfortunately, due to recent budgetary constraints at the U. of S.N.D. at H., Professor Rathke finds that her research funds are insufficient to meet this expense...."