Culminating paths
Let a and b be two positive integers. A culminating path is a path of Z^2 that starts from (0,0), consists of steps (1,a) and (1,-b), stays above the x-axis and ends at the highest ordinate it ever reaches. These paths were first encountered in bioinformatics, in the analysis of similarity search al...
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
2007-06-01
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| Series: | Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science |
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| Online Access: | https://dmtcs.episciences.org/438/pdf |