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Comparison of methods to determine point-to-point resistance in nearly rectangular networks with application to a

John W Essam1, Nikolay Sh Izmailyan2, Ralph Kenna3

  • 1Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway College , University of London , Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.

Royal Society Open Science
|June 12, 2015
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