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I'm studying Context free Grammar and I have a question to a specific Exercise:

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Why is i. True? How is this possible?

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    – chi
    Jun 23, 2018 at 18:00

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For every nonterminal $A$ it always holds that $A \Rightarrow^* A$. This is because $\Rightarrow^*$ is the reflexive transitive closure of $\Rightarrow$. In words, $A \Rightarrow^* \alpha$ is $\alpha$ can be obtained from $A$ by applying zero or more productions.

The similar notation $\Rightarrow^+$ is the transitive closure of $\Rightarrow$, and corresponds to one or more productions. In your grammar, it isn't the case that $T \Rightarrow^+ T$.

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