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- From: fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer)
- Subject: Re: solution or information needed
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- Steve Morris (srm@matrix.com) wrote:
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- : > Does anybody have the solutions to the exercises in the classic
- : >computer theory book? "Introduction to automata theory, languages, and
- : >computation" by Hopcroft and Ullman in 1979. If you have any, please
- : >post your reply or send it to me by e-mail. Thank you.
-
- : I'm in a situation where some answers would be very helpful.
-
- You need understanding, not answers. One of the main themes of
- classical language and automata theory is to classify the power of
- various grammar and machine models. A beautiful theory has developed
- that gives elegant characterizations of the capabilities and
- limitations of these devices. To see why {ww | w E {0,1}*} is not
- regular, for example, you need to know about the pumping lemma for
- regular sets and other techniques for proving non-regularity. To see
- why it is not accepted by a pushdown store machine, it is useful to
- know about the connections between pushdown store machines and
- context-free languages and to know about the pumping lemma for
- context-free languages. To see why it can be accepted by a Turing
- machine, you need an understanding of the kinds of things Turing
- machines can do and how they can do them. If you read and understand
- the Hopcroft and Ullman book, you won't need somebody else to furnish
- solutions to the exercises for you.
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