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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Models of computation 3 c i Solution by
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The formal language is a context-free language. A context-free grammar with start nonterminal symbol isThe production rule for nests one on the left and one on the right on each recursive use, so generates exactly for . Similarly, generates exactly for . The start production rule concatenates these words, yieldingConversely, every choice of nonnegative integers is achieved by using the recursive production rules exactly times before their epsilon productions. Hence this context-free grammar generates precisely the required formal language, including all cases where either count is zero.
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