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Fortune, S. (1996). Robustness issues in geometric algorithms. In: Lin, M.C., Manocha, D. (eds) Applied Computational Geometry Towards Geometric Engineering. WACG 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1148. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014476

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