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-**Boost.uBLAS** is part of the [Boost C++ Libraries](http://github.com/boostorg). It is directed towards scientific computing on the level of basic linear and multilinear algebra operations with tensors, matrices and vectors. 
+**Boost.uBLAS** is part of the [Boost C++ Libraries](http://github.com/boostorg). It is an open source C++ template class library directed towards scientific computing on the level of basic linear and multilinear algebra operations with tensors, matrices and vectors. 
 
 
 ## Documentation