Yes, Roger, but if you exclude the special cases, the remaining number of 
identities to learn is, practically speaking, finite.  I have a collection of 
identities in 
http://www.academia.edu/3247833/Statistical_induction_and_prediction 
to supplement those in Concrete Mathematics.

- Bo




>________________________________
> Fra: Roger Hui <[email protected]>
>Til: Programming forum <[email protected]> 
>Sendt: 18:41 torsdag den 6. juni 2013
>Emne: Re: [Jprogramming] Finding repeated substrings
> 
>
>To quote Graham, Knuth, & Patashnik, *Concrete Mathematics*, page 155:  The
>numbers in Pascal's triangle satisfy, practically speaking, infinitely many
>identities, so it's not too surprising that we can find some surprising
>relationships by looking closely.
>
>The relationship you quoted, (>:x)!y ←→ +/x!i.y, can be generalized into a
>theorem that I called Pascal's
>Ladder<http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Pascal%27s%20Ladder> (I
>like that better than "Hockey Stick Theorem").
>
>
>On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Bo Jacoby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The theorem that 2!y is equal to +/i.y is a special case of the more
>> general theorem that (>:x)!y   is equal to    +/x!i.y
>>
>> - Bo
>>
>>
>> >________________________________
>> > Fra: Roger Hui <[email protected]>
>> >Til: Programming forum <[email protected]>
>> >Sendt: 16:41 torsdag den 6. juni 2013
>> >Emne: Re: [Jprogramming] Finding repeated substrings
>> >
>> >
>> >There is a proof of a very similar theorem in section 1.4 of *Notation as
>> a
>> >Tool of Thought <http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm>*.  (The
>> >difference is that index origin is 1 in the paper.)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Caution: this code can give an incomplete result. For example, I do
>> >> not believe it will find 'aabaab'. Rather than fix this, I'll defer to
>> >> other solutions in this thread (which I imagine properly address this
>> >> issue).
>> >>
>> >> If anyone wants to take this code and fix it, the first instance of 2
>> >> -~/\ ] should be replaced with a mechanism that treats all
>> >> combinations of 2 (and not just adjacent pairs).
>> >>
>> >> (And on that note, I Tracy Harms recently directed my attention to a
>> >> page with a beautiful proof that 2&! is +/@i. - that concept would be
>> >> useful, here, I think. I wish I had recorded the url of that page. But
>> >> the gist of my thought is that it should be possible to go from y and
>> >> a member of i.2!y to a unique pair of two numbers in the range i.y,
>> >> and that might be a nice way of implementing this "combinations of 2"
>> >> function.)
>> >>
>> >> FYI,
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Raul
>> >>
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