maximum set of particularly picked words in three letter alphabet
Source: All-Russian 2021/11.3
April 20, 2021
combinatorics
Problem Statement
Some language has only three letters - and . A sequence of letters is called a word iff it contains exactly 100 letters such that exactly 40 of them are consonants and other 60 letters are all . What is the maximum numbers of words one can pick such that any two picked words have at least one position where they both have consonants, but different consonants?