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The Multifrontal Solution of Indefinite Sparse Symmetric Linear

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      ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software  Volume 9, Issue 3
      Sept. 1983
      113 pages
      ISSN:0098-3500
      EISSN:1557-7295
      DOI:10.1145/356044
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