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-// Copyright (c) 2003-2006  INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France).
-// All rights reserved.
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org); you may redistribute it under
-// the terms of the Q Public License version 1.0.
-// See the file LICENSE.QPL distributed with CGAL.
-//
-// Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
-// accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
-//
-// This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
-// WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-//
-// $URL$
-// $Id$
-//
-// Author(s)     : Monique Teillaud, Sylvain Pion
-
-
-// Partially supported by the IST Programme of the EU as a Shared-cost
-// RTD (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-2000-26473 
-// (ECG - Effective Computational Geometry for Curves and Surfaces) 
-// and a STREP (FET Open) Project under Contract No  IST-006413 
-// (ACS -- Algorithms for Complex Shapes)
-
-#ifndef CGAL_EXACT_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_H
-#define CGAL_EXACT_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_H
-
-#include <CGAL/Cartesian.h>
-#include <CGAL/Algebraic_kernel_2_2.h>
-#include <CGAL/Circular_kernel.h>
-
-/*
-TODO: CORRECT THE MAKE_ROOT_OF_2 of GMPq GMPz
-#ifdef CGAL_USE_GMP
-#  include <CGAL/Gmpq.h>
-#else
-*/
-#  include <CGAL/MP_Float.h>
-#  include <CGAL/Quotient.h>
-/*
-#endif
-*/
-
-// maybe it is better to change to the bbox filtered one
-#include <CGAL/Lazy_curved_kernel.h>
-
-CGAL_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
-
-/*
-#ifdef CGAL_USE_GMP
-  typedef CGAL::Gmpq                                           NT1;
-#else
-*/
-  typedef CGAL::Quotient<CGAL::MP_Float>                       NT1;
-/*
-#endif
-*/
-  typedef CGAL::Cartesian<NT1>                                 Linear_k1;
-  typedef CGAL::Algebraic_kernel_for_circles_2_2<NT1>          Algebraic_k1;
-  typedef CGAL::Circular_kernel_2<Linear_k1,Algebraic_k1>      CK1;
-
-  typedef CGAL::Interval_nt_advanced                           NT2;
-  typedef CGAL::Cartesian<NT2>                                 Linear_k2;
-  typedef CGAL::Algebraic_kernel_for_circles_2_2<NT2>          Algebraic_k2;
-  typedef CGAL::Circular_kernel_2<Linear_k2,Algebraic_k2>      CK2;
-
-  typedef CGAL::Lazy_curved_kernel<CK1,CK2>        Exact_circular_kernel_2;
-
-CGAL_END_NAMESPACE
-
-#endif // CGAL_EXACT_CIRCULAR_KERNEL_H