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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 1997 19:01:10 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        ponds!ponds!rivers (Thomas David Rivers)
Cc:        ponds!uunet.UU.NET!ponds!lakes.water.net!rivers, ponds!uunet.UU.NET!ponds!lambert.org!terry, ponds!uunet.UU.NET!ponds!freebsd.org!freebsd-hackers, ponds!uunet.UU.NET!ponds!xinside.com!patrick
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: freebsd performance.]
Message-ID:  <199702060201.TAA16316@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199702060124.UAA25717@lakes.water.net> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Feb 5, 97 08:24:34 pm

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>  The basic idea for the equivalence proof is that:
> 	
> 	1) All DFAs are NFAs (of course)
> 	2) Any NFA can be represented as a DFA where the states of
> 	    the DFA tuples of the states of the NFA.  [Think about
> 	    how you would write an NFA simulator; you'd have N
> 	    possible states moving from transition to transition.]
> 
>  So, DFA <-> NFA.

Cheater... "non-finite" != "infinite" in this definition.

BTW: The "machine translation of natural languages" question was asked
tongue-in-cheek... I suppose I need to add "8-)"'s.  8-(.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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