Practice Acceptance By Final State (6.2.1) - Pushdown Automata (PDA) and Non-Context-Free Languages
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Acceptance by Final State

Practice - Acceptance by Final State

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Question 1 Easy

What is a Pushdown Automaton?

💡 Hint: Think about what makes it different from finite automata.

Question 2 Easy

Define acceptance by final state.

💡 Hint: Consider what happens when the PDA finishes reading the input.

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Question 1

What is the main feature of a Pushdown Automaton?

Finite memory
Infinite memory using a stack
Non-deterministic transitions

💡 Hint: Consider what unique memory structure PDAs have that DFAs do not.

Question 2

True or False: Acceptance by final state and acceptance by empty stack yield the same set of context-free languages.

True
False

💡 Hint: Reflect on the equivalence of the two methods.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a PDA that operates using both acceptance by final state and acceptance by empty stack. Describe its functioning and provide diagrams if necessary.

💡 Hint: Consider how the stack can be manipulated under different acceptance conditions.

Challenge 2 Hard

Prove that the language L = { a^n b^n | n ≥ 0 } can be accepted by a PDA using the acceptance by final state, and demonstrate how the same PDA would accept it using the empty stack.

💡 Hint: Think about how the same stack operations can lead to both acceptance scenarios.

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