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Dear experts:
    I'm not so clear about the relationship between ABINIT k points and 
Monkhorst-Pack k points. In the tutorial 3.2 about the Si calculation, ngkpt 
is 4 4 4, the explaination said "this is a 4x4x4 FCC grid, based on the 
primitive vectors of the reciprocal space. For a FCC real space lattice, like 
the present one, it actually correponds to the so-called 8x8x8 Monkhorst-Pack 
grid". My advicor use VASP, he said VASP does  not has this problem. Would 
you please explain this for me?
Thanks a lot
Qing