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The power of the Church-Rosser property for string rewriting systems

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Book, R.V. (1982). The power of the Church-Rosser property for string rewriting systems. In: Loveland, D.W. (eds) 6th Conference on Automated Deduction. CADE 1982. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0000070

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