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This chapter gives a short introduction and explains the philosophy
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<Heading>Introduction</Heading>

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<Heading>What is the goal of the &ToricVarieties; package?</Heading>
&ToricVarieties; provides data structures to handle toric varieties by their commutative algebra structure and by their combinatorics. For combinatorics, it uses the &Convex; package.
Its goal is to provide a suitable framework to work with toric varieties. All combinatorial structures mentioned in this manual are the ones from &Convex;.

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