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* Based on the original MiniSat specification from:
* 
* An extensible SAT solver. Niklas Een and Niklas Sorensson. Proceedings of the
* Sixth International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
* Testing, LNCS 2919, pp 502-518, 2003.
*
* See www.minisat.se for the original solver in C++.
* 
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package org.sat4j.minisat.core;

/**
 * Specific vocabulary taking special care of binary clauses.
 * 
 * @author leberre
 */
public interface ILits2 extends ILits {

    /**
     * To know the number of binary clauses in which the literal occurs. Please
     * note that this method should only be used in conjunction with the
     * BinaryClauses data structure.
     * 
     * @param p
     * @return the number of binary clauses.
     */
    int nBinaryClauses(int p);

    /**
     * Method to create a binary clause.
     * 
     * @param lit1
     *            the first literal of the clause
     * @param lit2
     *            the second literal of the clause
     */
    void binaryClauses(int lit1, int lit2);

}