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Definition: A fully persistent data structure that allows meld or merge operations to combine two different versions.
See also partially persistent data structure, fully persistent data structure.
Author: PEB
James R. Driscoll, Daniel D. Sleator, and Robert E. Tarjan, Fully Persistent Lists with Catenation, Journal of the ACM, 41(5):943-949, 1994.
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Paul E. Black, "confluently persistent data structure", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed.,
U.S. National Institute of
Standards and Technology. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY)
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