“…Rather than to the bifix, much attention has been devoted to a bifix-indicator, an indicator function implying the existence of the bifix [10]. Such indicators were shown to be without equal in performing various statistical analysis, mainly concerning the search process [3,10] However, an analytical study of simultaneous search for a set of sequences urged the invention of cross-bifix indicators [1,2] and, accordingly, turned attention to the sets of sequences which avoid cross-bifixes, called cross-bifix-free sets.…”