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Slava's Monoid Zoo

31 pointsby luulast Sunday at 11:13 PM5 commentsview on HN

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voidUpdatetoday at 2:01 PM

> "Can you see a way to transform a string of 8 apples "" into a string of 10 apples ""?"

Am I missing something? The only rules we have are BAB -> AAA and BBB -> BB, and we start with only A, no B, so neither of those rules can be used, so the answer is no?

EDIT: Ah, looks like you cant put emoji in HN comments. Imagine there's apples in there

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entaloneralietoday at 2:56 PM

I'm too scared to leave the comfy world of commutative monoids.

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