say, i have got 3x'a', 5x'b', 2x'c',4x'd', as char collection.
2 strings are formed, each consists of all the chars given. eg. string A = 'aaabbbbbccdddd' B='abcdabcdabbbdd'
so both strings have length 14
now, we can randomly choose 3 consecutive chars from each string. say, I choose X ='aaa' from A, and Y = 'abc' from B.
define a function good(), which compares the two selected string segments. original flag = false. if the first char from X = the second char from Y then flag = true. if the second char from X = the third char from Y then flag = true. if the second char from X = the second char from Y then flag = true (yes it is not symmetric). good() returns 'good' only if the flag remains false after all the checks.
I know i can write a computer program to figure out the 'good' probability given A and B. But now I would like to find out the max and min of the good probability of different A and B from the char collection. Iterate all possible permutation would be physically infeasible. so I seek an approximate approach.
Any thoughts?