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A note on Beckett-Gray codes and the relationship of Gray codes to data structures

Combinatorics 2016-08-29 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a natural mathematical structure derived from Samuel Beckett's play "Quad". We call this structure a binary Beckett-Gray code. We enumerate all codes for n6n \leq 6 and give examples for n=7,8n=7,8. Beckett-Gray codes can be realized as successive states of a queue data structure. We show that the binary reflected Gray code can be realized as successive states of two stack data structures.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.06001,
  title  = {A note on Beckett-Gray codes and the relationship of Gray codes to data structures},
  author = {Mark Cooke and Chris North and Megan Dewar and Brett Stevens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06001},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 tables. Revisions requested from Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing

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