[seqfan] Re: help needed with former sequence A138036
hv at crypt.org
hv at crypt.org
Mon Sep 5 07:25:05 CEST 2011
franktaw at netscape.net wrote:
:Hugo left out a key word in his abbreviation of the text:
: ... Abelian squares are unavoidable ...
:
:I think "Abelian square" means that the word has the form XABY, where A
:and B contain the same non-empty multiset of letters; then the AB are
:an Abelian square.
My apologies for that, I've never come across this usage - I guess
that's a danger of adding irrelevant waffle to your definitions, that
an insufficiently well-versed editor will trim too much when trying
to reduce it to something sensible.
If I understand this definition correctly, the first sequences that
are square-free but not Abelian-square-free would be of length 6,
such as ABCACB - just outside the range of the sequence shown. :)
Hugo
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