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Grűnbaum, B. (1975). Polygons. In: Kelly, L.M. (eds) The Geometry of Metric and Linear Spaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0081139

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