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(a) State and prove the pumping lemma for regular languages.
(b) Let be a minimal deterministic finite-state automaton whose language is finite. Let be the transition diagram of , and suppose there exists a non-empty closed path in starting and ending at state .
(i) Show that there is no path in from to any accept state of .
(ii) Show that there is no path in from to any other state of .
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