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<Chapter Label="ch:intro"><Heading>Introduction</Heading>
    This chapter gives an overview of the main functions and data structures
    implemented by the package and a brief overview of the mathematical
    motivation. The MAPCLASS package is based on the Braid Package for braid
    orbit computation.
    
</Chapter>

