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Intrduced them!

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lamboot if necessary.

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Works in sequential mode.

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Test for element leaf-ness by calling EstimateHere instead of counting the number of sons.  This should also work in parallel

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This still needs some polishing and then we can come to the speed
comparsion.

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- fixed FlatIterator::equals(...)

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And geomtypes() returns the correct result.

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implemented the new index and id mechanism by using new data fields in the UG data structures.  Now if only it didn't crash when I turn it on... :-(

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