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    Present address: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Mount Allison University, EOA 3CO, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

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    Dekster, B.V. Borsuk's covering for blunt bodies. Arch. Math 51, 87–91 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01194159

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