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Hazewinkel, M. (1997). Q. In: Hazewinkel, M. (eds) Encyclopaedia of Mathematics. Encyclopaedia of Mathematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1288-6_17

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