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I had an assignment in which I had to design a pushdown automata that recognizes the language ${w \in [a,b,c]^*|w }$ have the same number of "ab" and "ba".

Tried to make a pushdown automata that if reads first ab pushes 1 to the stack and then if finds "ba" then pops it (and again reads "ab" and then "ba" , push / pop ) and the same if reads first "ba" and pops if finds "ab",but this approach fails for the case : ${baababbabaab}$ and many more cases. If someone could find whats wrong with my approach

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To see what goes wrong with your approach, it's best to scale down a bit.

As you've defined it, the string $aba$ lies in the language. You should try to come up with a way to make your automata accept this string.

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