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Finite automaton emptiness test

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A finite-state automaton recognizes a nonempty formal language exactly when some accepting automaton state is reachable from an initial automaton state. Reachability in a graph decides this in a finite transition graph. For an Epsilon-NFA, include its epsilon transitions; the non-epsilon labels of a successful graph path give an accepted word.

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