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Multiplicative block-count language ({ambmncn:m,n≥0})

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This formal language is not a context-free language. For pumping length p, use apbp2cp. A pumpable window of length at most p cannot meet both outer blocks. If pumping adds α,β,γ copies of a,b,c, then αγ=0 and 1≤α+β+γ≤p. Preserving the product constraint would require β=p(α+γ), impossible both when α+γ=0 and when it is positive. This contradicts the pumping lemma for context-free languages.

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