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St.Peterburg, P7 Grade 11, 2013

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April 17, 2014
combinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

In the language of wolves has two letters FF and PP, any finite sequence which forms a word. А word YY is called 'subpart' of word XX if Y is obtained from X by deleting some letters (for example, the word FFPFFFPF has 8 'subpart's: F, P, FF, FP, PF, FFP, FPF, FFF). Determine nn such that the nn is the greatest number of 'subpart's can have n-letter word language of wolves.
F. Petrov, V. Volkov