Note that you can have many proofs for the same identity.

Also, I did not download your pdf, because I did not feel like signing
into my facebook account. So, for example, I do not know how your
identities treat the relationship between the pascal and sierpinski
triangles.

-- 
Raul

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Bo Jacoby <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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