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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 305–319, March, 1988.

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Grigorchuk, R.I. Cancellative semigroups of power growth. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 43, 175–183 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01138837

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