Added qualifier to assertions + note about inhomogeneous rigid systems
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@ -138,7 +138,12 @@ needed, the subtracted degrees-of-freedom can be altered using the
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bin. As a result, the bin degrees-of-freedom summed over all bins exactly
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equals the degrees-of-freedom used in the scalar temperature calculation,
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:math:`\Sigma N_{DOF_i} = N_{DOF}` and the corresponding relation for temperature
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is also satisfied :math:`\Sigma N_{DOF_i} T_i = N_{DOF} T`
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is also satisfied :math:`\Sigma N_{DOF_i} T_i = N_{DOF} T`, so long as
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all bins contain more degrees of freedom than the number of constraints per bin.
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Note that as degrees-of-freedom subtracted due to fixes that contstrain
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molecular motion are distributed equally between bins, the reported
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temperature within a bin may not be accurate for systems containing
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inhomogeneously distributed rigid molecules.
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See the :doc:`Howto thermostat <Howto_thermostat>` doc page for a
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discussion of different ways to compute temperature and perform
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