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The advantages of a tree-like data structure for use in the multiplication of Poisson series by computer are espoused. Compared to list representations, computations with trees can be faster by a factor ofn/log(n), wheren is the number of trigonometric terms in a multiplicand.
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Fateman, R.J. On the multiplication of poisson series. Celestial Mechanics 10, 243–247 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01227622
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