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it is merely a monoid with some special property (which, is a logical property of concurrently counting words - "count the number of times a given invariant has changed from the start to the end of a sequence").

he wrote the monoid directly, rather than import the library - and it's a rather unimportant small detail.

He didn't invent a new research topic that nobody has seen before. You would've implicitly done this same thing if you wrote a map/reduce algorithm to count words across different machines.



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