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Finite State Machines

Understand how finite state machines operate by processing input symbols one at a time while transitioning through states. Learn to design machines that accept specific patterns, such as strings with even lengths or ending in certain symbols. Gain practical insights through examples, including machines that remove comments from code, and follow Python implementations to deepen your knowledge of automata in computation.

Transition graphs

We design our computations to only consider one symbol at a time, making decisions based only on the current “state” and the current input symbol. Consider the language LL:

L={λ,aa,ab,ba,bb,aaaa,aaab,aaba,aabb,abaa,}L=\{ \lambda, aa, ab, ba, bb, aaaa, aaab, aaba, aabb, abaa,\cdots \} ...