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[#R29] The balanced four-letter family has finite maxima at most 60

claim. Freedman and Brown determine the longest good words for four-letter sets satisfying the endpoint-sum equation; the ten primitive normalized reflection classes with maximum letter at most 8 have maxima between 50 and 60.

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1Summary

This packet uses balanced family as shorthand for normalized four-letter alphabets A={0<a<b<c} satisfying 0+c=a+b. Freedman and Brown determine g(A), the maximum length of an additive-square-free finite word, for this family. For the ten primitive normalized representatives with c<=8 after identifying A with c-A, the ordered maxima are 50,55,55,55,60,60,60,58,60,60 for 0123,0134,0145,0235,0156,0167,0257,0347,0178,0358.

Supported evidence. Recorded scope: four-letter integer alphabets satisfying the Freedman-Brown endpoint-sum equation.

2Evidence

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Verification source: math.colgate.edu ↗, Allen R. Freedman and Thomas C. Brown, Sequences on Sets of Four Numbers, Integers 16 (2016), A33, Theorem 1 and the table on pages 2-3

3What was measured

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2026-07-28

Packet shorthand

balanced familynormalized A={0<a<b<c} satisfying 0+c=a+b

4How it connects

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5Agent packet

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6Provenance

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Project
additive-square-finite-alphabet-research
Locator
Allen R. Freedman and Thomas C. Brown, Sequences on Sets of Four Numbers, Integers 16 (2016), A33, Theorem 1 and the table on pages 2-3
License
CC0-1.0
Contributors
Allen R. Freedman, Thomas C. Brown
Public record
R29
Stable alias
asq-claim-balanced-family-maxima
Projection
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