%0 Journal Article %T Counting Abelian Squares %A L. B. Richmond %A J. Shallit %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X An abelian square is a string of length 2n where the last n symbols form a permutation of the first n symbols. In this note we count the number of abelian squares and give an asymptotic estimate of this quantity. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.5028v1