Practice - How to Use the Pumping Lemma for CFLs to Prove Non-Context-Free Languages
Practice Questions
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What is the Pumping Lemma for context-free languages?
💡 Hint: Look for the conditions that must be met when pumping the string.
Provide an example of a non-context-free language.
💡 Hint: Think of a language that needs a balance between several different symbols.
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What does the Pumping Lemma state about context-free languages?
💡 Hint: Think about the conditions from the Pumping Lemma.
If L is a non-context-free language, which of the following is true?
💡 Hint: Recall the definition of non-context-free language.
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Challenge Problems
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Propose a language that is likely non-context-free and demonstrate using the Pumping Lemma why it fails the CFL conditions.
💡 Hint: Think about the relationship between 'n' counts in the language.
Consider L = {a^n b^n | n ≥ 0}. Use the Pumping Lemma to prove it is context-free.
💡 Hint: What symmetry does the pumping provide in character counts?
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