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Re:Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Int... by jstanley on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:34AM (#16873790)
But you're trying to find a bit-substring of length 2 that is least likely to have been transmitted.

If the bit strings of length 3 are chosen uniformly, 11 is less likely to appear than 10.

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