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Research at MSRI is supported in part by NSF grant DMS-9701755, benefited from a post-doctoral fellowship at MSRI and is also supported in part by NSF grant DMS-9804846 at MSU

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... counts²

The term ``root count'' was coined by Canny and Rojas [13] while introducing mixed volumes to computational algebraic geometry.

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