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We study the problem of scheduling a single machine with the precedence relation on the set of jobs to minimize average weighted completion time. The problem is strongly NP-hard. The first combinatorial 2-approximation algorithm for this scheduling problem was developed by the author in 1992 (in fact, this algorithm solves a more general problem). Here we give an efficient implementation of this algorithm...