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Assume a computer with a (relatively) slow and large memory consisting of pages, each with a capacity of p records. Available operations for manipulating information in slow memory are limited to selecting two pages, forming a subset, of size at most p, from the union of the two pages, and storing this subset in a third page.
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Floyd, R.W. (1972). Permuting Information in Idealized Two-Level Storage. In: Miller, R.E., Thatcher, J.W., Bohlinger, J.D. (eds) Complexity of Computer Computations. The IBM Research Symposia Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2001-2_10
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