Unsure about Reference Energy "TotEng" is Calculated with Respect to

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Hello all,

Forgive me if this is a baby question but I haven’t been able to find an answer on my own.

I don’t know what reference energy “TotEng” is calculating energies relative to whilst using the run command and I’m using the 23 Jun 2022 version.

Thank you for your time.

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The absolute value of energies is arbitrary with classical potentials, only energy differences and forces matter. Forces are unaffected since any total offset will vanish when taking the derivative.

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