To avoid confusion on this point we have replaced this statement with the following: “We find that these errors are infrequent and acceptable as a trade-off for increased computational performance.” We have also added a comment to Section 2.5 regarding the Lennard–Jones interaction: “The attractive force has a short range, and is practically zero at h = 2θ.”
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