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Hi guys!

I have recently found a very interesting question, and it goes like this:
Let's assume you have a sequence of 36 1's and 0's (i.e. 01010101..., 10000100... ). Can you construct a sequence such that every consecutive subsequence of length 5 is unique? Let's assume that you start with 00000. How would you construct it?

(For instance, if you start with 00000100001..., then it's not valid since you have two subsequences (00001, 00001) of length 5 that are identical)

I have found solution of this on web - 000001000110010100111010110111110000, and author of solution mentioned that he got the solution with thinking about shift registers. I know almost nothing about those registers, so any idea/ intuition how to get abovementioned number would mean a lot to me.

Cheers:)

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Actually I still don't understand the idea, so you divided 36 into 7 numbers of 5 digits +1, so first you put 10001, and what about 1's and 0's between 10001 and 10011? I am really not yet sure how to implement this concept.

 

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