À la recherche de la preuve perdue: a simple proof of the Ficken theorem

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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Jagiellonian University Łojasiewicza 6, PL-30-348 Kraków Poland

A new proof of the Ficken criterion is given together with a comment concerning the known proofs and related results

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