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Article Contents
1 Introduction
2 Choice of a simulation method
3 General considerations
4 Relaxation
5 Orbital displacements and potential updating
6 Other ingredients
7 Code testing
8 Conclusions
Appendix A: Practical computation of a super-encounter
Appendix B: Random selection of a new orbital radius
Appendix C: Binary tree structure and algorithms
Appendix D: Tests for spurious relaxation
References

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