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+#ifndef CGAL_EXACT_CIRCULAR_3_KERNEL_H
+#define CGAL_EXACT_CIRCULAR_3_KERNEL_H
+
+// Copyright (c) 2005-2006  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, Pedro Machado
+
+
+// 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)
+
+#include <CGAL/Cartesian.h>
+#include <CGAL/Algebraic_kernel_for_spheres_2_3.h>
+#include <CGAL/Circular_kernel_3.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
+*/
+
+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_spheres_2_3<NT1>          Algebraic_k1;
+  typedef CGAL::Circular_kernel_3<Linear_k1,Algebraic_k1>      Exact_circular_kernel_3;
+
+CGAL_END_NAMESPACE
+
+#endif /*CGAL_EXACT_CIRCULAR_3_KERNEL_H*/