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- From: aps@sonia.math.ucla.edu (Alexei Stolboushkin)
- Subject: Re: solution or information needed
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:48:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.153028.7679@cs.yale.edu> fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) writes:
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- ...
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- >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
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- certainly it IS context-free, and therefore accepted by a PDA.
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- >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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