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Presented to the Third Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing at Shaker Heights, Ohio on 5 May 1971.
Works reported herein are supported in part by the University Research Council of Youngstown State University.
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Santos, E.S. Algebraic structure theory of stochastic machines. Math. Systems Theory 6, 243–262 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01706093
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