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Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC 1988)

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Makanin's algorithm [9], [3] decides whether an equation in words has a solution or not. The aim of this paper is to describe some new results in the field of solving equations in words.

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  1. Laboratoire d'Informatique de ROUEN et LITP Faculté des sciences, B.P. 118, 76134, MONT SAINT AIGNAN CEDEX

    Habib Abdulrab

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P. Gianni

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Abdulrab, H. (1989). Equations in words. In: Gianni, P. (eds) Symbolic and Algebraic Computation. ISSAC 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51084-2_49

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