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$\begingroup$ Nice. I teach this in my class. And the intuitive reason that if a pattern matches one of its shifts it has a higher propensity to occur in clusters, delaying the first occurrence, in expectation. $\endgroup$
– kodlu
Commented Apr 15, 2020 at 3:40
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$\begingroup$ And if the letters are not equiprobable, add the reciprocal of the product of probabilities of letters in the $n$ string... $\endgroup$
– Nico Bellic
Commented Nov 15, 2022 at 23:14

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