GATE CS 2016 Set 1 — Question 52

MCQ+2 / -0.67EasyContext-Free GrammarsContext-Free LanguagesTheory of Computation

Theory of Computation → Context-Free Languages → Context-Free Grammars

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G_1: S \to aS \mid B, B \to b \mid bB

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\{a^m b^n \mid m > 0 \text{ or } n > 0\}

\{a^m b^n \mid m > 0 \text{ and } n > 0\}

\{a^m b^n \mid m \geq 0 \text{ or } n > 0\}

\{a^m b^n \mid m \geq 0 \text{ and } n > 0\}

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