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Manes, E.G. (1986). Weakest preconditions: Categorical insights. In: Pitt, D., Abramsky, S., Poigné, A., Rydeheard, D. (eds) Category Theory and Computer Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17162-2_122
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