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@Misc{dads:rt,
  author = {Paul M. Sant},
  title = {"rooted tree"},
  howpublished = {in \emph{Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures} [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black eds.},
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  year = {2004},
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