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	"""
	Programmer: Chris Tralie

	Purpose: To provide a basic ordered merge tree class for interval and circular domains,
	along with methods to construct the merge tree from a time series, to plot it and
	its associated persistence diagram, and to simplify the merge trees by persistence
	"""

	import numpy as np
	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt