Practice - Initial Conditions for Bad Strings
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Practice Questions
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What is a bad string?
💡 Hint: Think of substrings that should not appear.
Define a recurrence relation.
💡 Hint: Focus on how a sequence can be defined recursively.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What qualifies as a bad string?
💡 Hint: Focus on the definition of bad strings presented in class.
True or False: Recurrence relations can only define numeric sequences.
💡 Hint: Think about how we've defined strings using recurrence.
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Challenge Problems
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Calculate the total number of valid bit strings of length 5 that do not contain '000'.
💡 Hint: Set your base cases right from 0 to 4.
Propose an algorithm that can compute the number of valid strings based on the discussed recurrence relations efficiently.
💡 Hint: Think about how to minimize recalculations by storing previous results.
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