#78 VIℓ
How many different musical symbol sequences are there in Project Hail Mary?
We saw in #24 that there are 179 instances of the characters:
♩ ♪ ♫
but how many sequences of those characters appear and how many unique such sequences are there?
There are 53 musical sequences with 33 unique patterns.
The sequences occurring 4 times are:
♪
♫♩
♫♩♪♫
♫♪♫
The sequence occurring 3 times is:
♫♪♩♫
The sequences occurring 2 times are:
♩♪♫
♩♫♩♪♪
♫
♫♩♪
♫♪
♫♪♫♪
The sequences occurring 1 time are:
♩♩
♩♪♩
♩♪♫♩♪
♩♪♫♪
♩♫♪♪♫
♪♪
♪♪♩
♪♪♫♪
♪♫♩
♪♫♫♪
♫♩♪♪♪
♫♩♪♪♫
♫♩♪♫♩♪♫
♫♩♪♫♪
♫♩♪♫♫
♫♪♩♪
♫♪♫♩
♫♪♫♪♩
♫♪♫♪♩♩
♫♪♫♫♪
♫♫
♫♫♩
it’s very easy to make a computer identify musical notes and find them in a table.
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