Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Four Pages Are Indeed Necessary for Planar Graphs (paper): arxiv.org/abs/2004.07630

Play with the four page graph: http://be.cs.arizona.edu/map/1442/

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