The CERN made a very cool software and decided to call it root.
> You need root privileges to run root

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@rastinza and it's a giant set of tools that physicists have accumulated over the years championing inconsistency and bad practices (because developed directly by physicists and not by software engineers).

I don't know the situation now, but some time ago it was a problem to have this giant installed by those who had to do even just a few small calculations.

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