%0 Journal Article %T On a construction of Friedman %A Jeffrey Shallit %A Ming-wei Wang %J Mathematics %D 2000 %I arXiv %X H. Friedman obtained remarkable results about the longest finite sequence $x$ such that for all $i \not= j$ the word $x[i..2i]$ is not a subsequence of $x[j..2j]$. In this note we consider what happens when ``subsequence'' is replaced by ``subword''. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0009090v1