2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/59899H. Friedman obtained remarkable results about the longest finite sequence $x$ such that for all $i \not= j$ the word $x[i..2i]$ is not a subsequence of $x[j..2j]$. In this note we consider what happens when ``subsequence'' is replaced by ``subword''.Combinatorics68R15On a construction of Friedmantext