“…The dual graph, with a suitable weight for each vertex (for example one can take the number of blowing-ups done to produce the corresponding divisor or, alternatively, the self-intersection of the divisor), determines the topology of the singularity associated to fg. If, moreover, we distinguish the branches of ff ¼ 0g from those of fg ¼ 0g (for example by using different colors or different symbols for the corresponding arrows), it determines the topology of the pair ð f; gÞ ([Ma2]). …”