9COMPUTING MACHINES
We’re all used to having access to powerful computing devices with complex architectures and instruction sets, but fundamental ideas of computer science are based on far simpler devices. The basic idea is to begin with the simplest possible devices and determine what types of computations are possible. We’ll explore three such devices below, ranging from ones that can only perform simple operations like recognizing strings to ones that can carry out any algorithm.
Finite-State Automata
In this section, we’ll introduce an abstract machine—a computational model, not a physical machine—called a finite-state automaton (FSA) or ...
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