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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 653–674, June, 1979.

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Apresyan, L.A. Pade approximants (review). Radiophys Quantum Electron 22, 449–466 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01081220

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