What is the maximum number of the distinct subwords of the word AXIOMATIZABLE?
The answer is 88. But how?
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asked 2012-01-31
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There are 120 ways to rearrange the letters in AXIOM so I'm not sure how this could be 88 - what counts as a "subword"? If only actual English words count as subwords, then this isn't really a mathematics problem. Also, what does the phrase "Universal binary operation and finite fields (ring)" have to do with the question as stated? – 2012-01-31