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It is shown that to test whether two DOL sequences in the binary case coincide it is enough to test whether four first words of these sequences are the same. The result is optimal.
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Karhumäki, J. (1982). On the equivalence problem for binary DOL systems. In: Nielsen, M., Schmidt, E.M. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1982. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0012781
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