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              The author would like to thank his wife Mary for her patience and support
              during the long process of converting this from a piece of C code to
              a template library.
            
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              The author would also like to thank Phil Endecott and Frank Gennari
              for the improvements they've suggested and for testing. Without them
              this would have taken longer to develop or performed worse.
            
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              float_mem_castwas fixed to be safe and fast thanks to
              Scott McMurray. That fix was critical for a high-performance cross-platformfloat_sort
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              Thanks also for multiple helpful suggestions provided by Steven Watanabe,
              Edouard Alligand, and others.
            
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              Initial documentation was refactored to use Quickbook by Paul A. Bristow.