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- 1. 1 Welcome to ! Theory Of Automata
- 2. 2 What does automata mean? It is the plural of automaton, and it means “something that works automatically”
- 3. 3 Introduction to languages There are two types of languages Formal Languages (Syntactic languages) Informal Languages (Semantic languages)
- 4. 4 Alphabets Definition: A finite non-empty set of symbols (letters), is called an alphabet. It is denoted by Σ ( Greek letter sigma). Example: Σ={a,b} Σ={0,1} //important as this is the language //which the computer understands. Σ={i,j,k}
- 5. 5 NOTE: A certain version of language ALGOL has 113 letters Σ (alphabet) includes letters, digits and a variety of operators including sequential operators such as GOTO and IF
- 6. 6 Strings Definition: Concatenation of finite symbols from the alphabet is called a string. Example: If Σ= {a,b} then a, abab, aaabb, ababababababababab
- 7. 7 NOTE: EMPTY STRING or NULL STRING Sometimes a string with no symbol at all is used, denoted by (Small Greek letter Lambda) λ or (Capital Greek letter Lambda) Λ, is called an empty string or null string. The capital lambda will mostly be used to denote the empty string, in further discussion.
- 8. 8 Words Definition: Words are strings belonging to some language. Example: If Σ= {x} then a language L can be defined as L={xn : n=1,2,3,…..} or L={x,xx,xxx,….} Here x,xx,… are the words of L
- 9. 9 NOTE: All words are strings, but not all strings are words.
- 10. 10 Valid/In-valid alphabets While defining an alphabet, an alphabet may contain letters consisting of group of symbols for example Σ1= {B, aB, bab, d}. Now consider an alphabet Σ2= {B, Ba, bab, d} and a string BababB.
- 11. 11 This string can be tokenized in two different ways (Ba), (bab), (B) (B), (abab), (B) Which shows that the second group cannot be identified as a Word, defined over Σ = {a, b}.
- 12. 12 As when this string is scanned by the compiler (Lexical Analyzer), first symbol B is identified as a letter belonging to Σ, while for the second letter the lexical analyzer would not be able to identify, so while defining an alphabet it should be kept in mind that ambiguity should not be created.
- 13. 13 Remarks: While defining an alphabet of letters consisting of more than one symbols, no letter should be started with the letter of the same alphabet i.e. one letter should not be the prefix of another. However, a letter may be ended in the letter of same alphabet i.e. one letter may be the suffix of another.
- 14. 14 Conclusion Σ1= {B, aB, bab, d} Σ2= {B, Ba, bab, d} Σ1 is a valid alphabet while Σ2 is an in-valid alphabet.
- 15. 15 Length of Strings Definition: The length of string s, denoted by |s|, is the number of letters in the string. Example: Σ={a,b} s=ababa |s|=5
- 16. 16 Example: Σ= {B, aB, bab, d} s=BaBbabd Tokenizing=(B), (aB), (bab), (d) |s|=4
- 17. 17 Reverse of a String Definition: The reverse of a string s denoted by Rev(s) or sr, is obtained by writing the letters of s in reverse order. Example: If s=abc is a string defined over Σ={a,b,c} then Rev(s) or sr = cba
- 18. 18 Example: Σ= {B, aB, bab, d} s=BaBbabBd Rev(s)=dBbabaBB
- 19. 19 Lecture 2 Defining Languages The languages can be defined in different ways , such as Descriptive definition, Recursive definition, using Regular Expressions(RE) and using Finite Automaton(FA) etc. Descriptive definition of language: The language is defined, describing the conditions imposed on its words.
- 20. 20 Example: The language L of strings of odd length, defined over Σ={a}, can be written as L={a, aaa, aaaaa,…..} Example: The language L of strings that does not start with a, defined over Σ={a,b,c}, can be written as L={b, c, ba, bb, bc, ca, cb, cc, …}
- 21. 21 Example: The language L of strings of length 2, defined over Σ={0,1,2}, can be written as L={00, 01, 02,10, 11,12,20,21,22} Example: The language L of strings ending in 0, defined over Σ ={0,1}, can be written as L={0,00,10,000,010,100,110,…}
- 22. 22 Example: The language EQUAL, of strings with number of a’s equal to number of b’s, defined over Σ={a,b}, can be written as {Λ ,ab,aabb,abab,baba,abba,…} Example: The language EVEN-EVEN, of strings with even number of a’s and even number of b’s, defined over Σ={a,b}, can be written as {Λ, aa, bb, aaaa,aabb,abab, abba, baab, baba, bbaa, bbbb,…}
- 23. 23 Example: The language INTEGER, of strings defined over Σ={-,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}, can be written as INTEGER = {…,-2,-1,0,1,2,…} Example: The language EVEN, of stings defined over Σ={-,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}, can be written as EVEN = { …,-4,-2,0,2,4,…}
- 24. 24 Example: The language {an bn }, of strings defined over Σ={a,b}, as {an bn : n=1,2,3,…}, can be written as {ab, aabb, aaabbb,aaaabbbb,…} Example: The language {an bn an }, of strings defined over Σ={a,b}, as {an bn an : n=1,2,3,…}, can be written as {aba, aabbaa, aaabbbaaa,aaaabbbbaaaa,…}
- 25. 25 Example: The language factorial, of strings defined over Σ={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} i.e. {1,2,6,24,120,…} Example: The language FACTORIAL, of strings defined over Σ={a}, as {an! : n=1,2,3,…}, can be written as {a,aa,aaaaaa,…}. It is to be noted that the language FACTORIAL can be defined over any single letter alphabet.
- 26. 26 Example: The language DOUBLEFACTORIAL, of strings defined over Σ={a, b}, as {an! bn! : n=1,2,3,…}, can be written as {ab, aabb, aaaaaabbbbbb,…} Example: The language SQUARE, of strings defined over Σ={a}, as {an2 : n=1,2,3,…}, can be written as {a, aaaa, aaaaaaaaa,…}
- 27. 27 Example: The language DOUBLESQUARE, of strings defined over Σ={a,b}, as {an2 bn2 : n=1,2,3,…}, can be written as {ab, aaaabbbb, aaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbb,…}