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Jayanti, P., Toueg, S. (1992). Some results on the impossibility, universality, and decidability of consensus. In: Segall, A., Zaks, S. (eds) Distributed Algorithms. WDAG 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 647. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56188-9_5
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