1. Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions
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A finite automaton remembers an input prefix through its current state. The course’s regular expressions use union, concatenation and star, yet describe the same class of languages.
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representing a computer that has a very small amount of memoryThey are equivalent in power with respect to the class of languages they describe.