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Equal prime block language is not context-free

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The language {0p1p:p is prime} is not context-free. For a proposed pumping length, start with a larger prime p. Pumping unequal numbers of zeros and ones breaks equality; if the positive changes are equal to d, pumping with exponent p+1 gives the composite common block length p(1+d).

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