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Questions about regular expressions, a formalism to describe regular languages.

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If a person accidentally deletes a few letters when they try to type "IDAHO" or "ILLIONOIS",...

The Short Version of my Question The following two regular expressions represent two sets of strings. REGEX EXAMPLES OF STRINGS OF TEXT THAT MATCH THE REGEX I?D?A?H?O? “IDAHO”“ID”“IDH”“IDAHO” …
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How do you convert a string representing a finite set of strings into a regulair expression ...

Consider the following string: stryng = "{\"Jordi\", \"Jordy\", \"Jorde\", \"Jordie\", \"Jordee\", \"Joardi\", \"Joardy\", \"Joarde\", \"Joardie\", \"Joardee\"}" That string represents a mathematical …
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What algorithm will convert a regex into a tree of predictable size?

How do we quantify the size of a regular expression? A problem in computer science which sometimes arises is converting a regular expression into a tree. What rules can we use to ensure that the tree …
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What algorithm accepts a set of strings as input and outputs a regex of minimal size?

We seek an algorithm. Inputs to the algorithm are a set of strings $A$ and the output of the algorithm $A$ is a regular expression $r$ such that: The size of regular expression $r$ is minimized. If …
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What algrorithm computes a mutally exclusive partitioning from two regulair expressions?

The Question A regular expression, such as AL+[EYI]+, represents a set of strings. alleys = { “ALY”, “ALLEY”, “ALLY”, “ALLEE”, et cetra... } Let $\mathbb{AS}$ be the set of a …
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