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"ref": "1830, Francisco Javier Gamboa, Commentaries on the mining ordinances of Spain:",
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"ref": "1986, Yash Aggarwal, Transport Geography of India:",
"text": "By adding up all squared values and by dividing the total by the number of vertices we get a number indicating the degree of circuity of the transportation network relative to the given vortex.",
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"ref": "2003, Christopher Julius Starforth Hill, Maritime Law, page 379:",
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