We use the Chicken McNugget monoid to demonstrate various factorization properties related to relations and chains of factorizations. We study in depth the catenary and tame degrees of this monoid.
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@article{arxiv.1912.04494,
title = {Distances between factorizations in the Chicken McNugget monoid},
author = {Scott Chapman and Pedro Garcia-Sanchez and Christopher O'Neill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04494},
year = {2019}
}