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Revised 04 December, 2005
Copyright Beman Dawes and David Abrahams 2001-2005
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)