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+**Call for maintainers**: if you want this project to keep living and are ready to maintain it (pull requests management, issue resolution…), please contact me! I am ready to share my knowledge of the code logic by participating in discussions (notably around pull requests and issues).
    
 This is the ``uncertainties`` Python package, which performs **transparent
 calculations with uncertainties** (aka "error propagation"):