MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

THEORY OF COMPUTATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Regular expression {0, 1} is equivalent to
A
0 U 1
B
0 / 1
C
0 + 1
D
All of the mentioned
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -1 Answer. Easiest explanation: All are equivalent to union operation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Every regular expression over 0, 1 is itself a string over the 8-symbol alphabet 0, 1, +, *, (, ), , Ø.

Detailed explanation-3: -Consider the regular expression (0|1)*. This stands for the set of all strings of binary digits. If we match this pattern against 0101B, there are 4 possible substrings it can match, namely 0, 01, 010, and 0101. Often we try to match the longest possible substring, in this case 0101.

Detailed explanation-4: -To answer your question, no. They are not the same.

Detailed explanation-5: -We say that two regular expressions R and S are equivalent if they describe the same language. In other words, if L(R) = L(S) for two regular expressions R and S then R = S. Examples.

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