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An anthropological perspective on the “Emperor’s edict”

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

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Washburn, D.K. An anthropological perspective on the “Emperor’s edict”. The Mathematical Intelligencer 8, 66–67 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03026121

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