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   From: pfiland@mindspring.com   
      
   Market Theory wrote:   
   >   
   > A variant of the General Poster's problem.   
   >   
   > Discover patterns of consecutive symbols in a stream. The patterns are   
   > not known in advance, so this is a statistical anomaly detection   
   > problem. The stream consists of mostly random symbols over a known   
   > finite alphabet. The expected frequencies/probabilities of the random   
   > symbols may be known in advance, or inferred from the stream. The   
   > minimum and maximum length of patterns of interest are specified as   
   > parameters.   
   >   
   > eg   
   >   
   > wnckbvmnunixwjgemblsmznhauiwriewpklgnkwnbwnbwknqjowjunixjowrgnblsmknashwiw   
   >   
   > has the pattern "unix"   
      
   ... and also "blsm"   
      
   --   
   pete   
      
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