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The German mathematician Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (1856–1934) studied words in \( {\mathcal{W}}_{a,b} \) for \( a=b \) with the property that the -count is at all times greater than or equal to the -count, that is, for which
for all k. Those words have since become known as Dyck words.
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Roman, S. (2015). Dyck Words. In: An Introduction to Catalan Numbers. Compact Textbooks in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22144-1_2
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