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CH 02

Decidability

Theory of Computation · GATE

Key points

  • For regular languages, membership, emptiness, finiteness and equivalence are all decidable.
  • For CFLs, membership, emptiness and finiteness are decidable; equivalence and ambiguity are undecidable.
  • Rice's theorem: every non-trivial property of RE languages is undecidable.
  • The halting problem is RE but not recursive.
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