(classic problem)
Definition: Given a set of pairs of strings, find a sequence of pairs such that the concatenation of all first members of the pairs is the same string as the concatenation of all second members. This is an undecidable problem.
Also known as PCP.
Author: SKS
Emil Post, A Variant of a Recursively Unsolvable Problem. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 52:264-268, 1946.
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Sandeep Kumar Shukla, "Post's correspondence problem", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed.,
U.S. National Institute of
Standards and Technology. 14 April 2009. (accessed TODAY)
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