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Double-Elimination Tournaments: Counting and Calculating

Christopher T. Edwards Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI, 54901-8631, USA
Pages 27-33 | Received 01 Oct 1993, Published online: 17 Feb 2012

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