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### Why is the following language not context-free?

$L = \{a^n b^m | m \not= n^2 \}$ I guess I need to use Pumping Lemma for CFL in order to prove this. But I'm stuck. Assuming that $a^n b^m = uvxyz$, we know that $v$ or $y$ can not have both $a$ ...
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### Existence of non-context free but decidable languages

I've been reading the decidablity and undecidability chapters in Sipser's "Intro to Theory of Computation" however I could not find an explanation on the existence of a language that is both non-...
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### Determining whether a context-free language (CFL) described by a given grammar is regular (RL)

In my homework we're given the following problem: Determine whether the context-free language described by the following grammar is regular, showing all the reasoning steps: S -> T T | U T -> 0 T | ...
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### A context free grammar proof

There is a problem which I cannot solve. If you give a tip I will be very glad. Prove that following language is not context free: $L= \{ a^nb^m | \gcd(n,m) = 1 \}$. It can be proven using the ...
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### Does this language have a context-free grammar?

Here is a question that I encountered in one of my exams: Find one context-free grammar that recognizes the language: $\qquad L = \{a^n(b^mc^m)^pd^n \mid m, n, p \geq 0\}$ Can you find such a ...