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The escargot polynomials and associated numbers

By truncating the polynomials we can focus on the case that the words in question have length no more than 30. By evaluating w to be 1, we count the words (we call these words strings). However, in the chemical application, we can allow for the 19 possible amino acids which may occur when a W is present by putting w=19 (we call these words sequences). We let be the polynomial which enumerates all words satisfying conditions (i), (ii) and (iii) and involve m copies of B, and are truncated to allow for the total length condition (the escargot polynomials). Let be the polynomials of inaccessibility, which are defined in the same way, save that conditions (iv) and (v) are also imposed.





Geoff C Smith
Tue Jun 9 10:45:46 BST 1998