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### Asymptotics of the number of words in a regular language of given length

For a regular language $L$, let $c_n(L)$ be the number of words in $L$ of length $n$. Using Jordan canonical form (applied to the unannotated transition matrix of some DFA for $L$), one can show that ...
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### Is Logical Min-Cut NP-Complete?

Logical Min Cut (LMC) problem definition Suppose that $G = (V, E)$ is an unweighted digraph, $s$ and $t$ are two vertices of $V$, and $t$ is reachable from $s$. The LMC Problem studies how we can ...
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### Is there a 'string stack' data structure that supports these string operations?

I'm looking for a data structure that stores a set of strings over a character set $\Sigma$, capable of performing the following operations. We denote $\mathcal{D}(S)$ as the data structure storing ...
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### Proving the (in)tractability of this Nth prime recurrence

As follows from my previous question, I've been playing with the Riemann hypothesis as a matter of recreational mathematics. In the process, I've come to a rather interesting recurrence, and I'm ...
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### Measuring one way network latency

This is a puzzle about measuring network latency that I created. I believe the solution is that it's impossible, but friends disagree. I'm looking for convincing explanations either way. (Though it is ...
Recently, I came across this problem, a variation of towers of hanoi. Problem statement: Consider the folowing variation of the well know problem Towers of Hanoi: We are given $n$ towers ...