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Santoro, N., Widmayer, P. (1989). Time is not a healer. In: Monien, B., Cori, R. (eds) STACS 89. STACS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 349. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0028994

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