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Regular Expressions and Finite Automata

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For small regular expressions, one can often see how to construct an equivalent automaton directly without going through the mechanical procedure of the previous lecture. It is therefore useful to try to simplify the expression first.

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Kozen, D.C. (1977). Regular Expressions and Finite Automata. In: Automata and Computability. Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85706-5_9

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