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Deterministic coin tossing and accelerating cascades: micro and macro techniques for designing parallel algorithms

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                STOC '86: Proceedings of the eighteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
                November 1986
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                ISBN:0897911938
                DOI:10.1145/12130

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