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Imagine that you are standing at an intersection in the centre of a large city whose streets are laid out in a square grid. You choose a street at random and begin walking away from your starting point, and at each intersection you reach you choose to continue straight ahead or to turn left or right.
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Madras, N., Slade, G. (2013). Introduction. In: The Self-Avoiding Walk. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6025-1_1
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