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The Catalan numbers form the sequence of numbers starting 1,1,2,5,14,42,... with explicit formula $\frac{1}{n+1}\binom{2n}{n}$. It counts many combinatorial objects like planar binary trees, triangulations, noncrossing partitions, Dyck paths, etc. See https://oeis.org/A000108

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Does this question have anything to do with Catalan numbers?

I think this question has something to do with Catalan numbers but I'm not really sure. I want to find out the number of strings that consist of $n$ $L$'s and $n$ $R$'s, under the constraint that for …
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Dyck words and Catalan numbers

One of the many applications of the $n$th Catalan number is to calculate the number of strings consisting of $n$ $X$'s and $n$ $Y$'s, such that any prefix of the string will contain at least as many $ …
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