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We place at the beginning of this book a presentation of a subject which is part of number theory and may give the reader an intuition to follow the rest of the chapters.
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Almeida, J., Costa, A., Kyriakoglou, R., Perrin, D. (2020). Prelude: Profinite Integers. In: Profinite Semigroups and Symbolic Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2274. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55215-2_2
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