Mathematics Tripos Papers

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Paper 1, Section I, 4H4 \mathrm{H}4H

Automata and Formal Languages | Part II, 2017

(a) Prove that every regular language is also a context-free language (CFL).

(b) Show that, for any fixed n>0n>0n>0, the set of regular expressions over the alphabet {a1,…,an}\left\{a_{1}, \ldots, a_{n}\right\}{a1​,…,an​} is a CFL, but not a regular language.

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