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Timeline for Totally aperiodic sequence

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Jan 9, 2015 at 9:14 vote accept ARG
Jan 8, 2015 at 19:24 comment added Steven Stadnicki Also, for completeness-sake, there is no square-free word over an alphabet of size 2: suppose the alphabet is $\{a,b\}$ and WLOG that the first element of the sequence is $a$. Then the next must be $b$ (else $aa$ is a square), and the next after that must be again $a$ (else $bb$ is a square). But now there's no choice for the fourth element; $a$ will yield $a^2$, while $b$ will yield $(ab)^2$.
Jan 8, 2015 at 18:22 history answered Michael Albert CC BY-SA 3.0