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an image incorporating two famous memes. on top is the title "learning about Σ* in theory of computation."
in the centre is a close-up of Chad face – often used when talking about sigma males – cropped in a five-pointed star shape.
below are two soyjaks pointing towards the aforementioned Chad face. those soyjaks are labeled "me" and "my brain".
It's funny, I never associated formal languages as part of the theory of computation. We only learnt about them from the perspective of automata/state machine theory
Didn’t you go into Turing machines and the Halting problem from that?
That was my intro into computation: regex, automatas, state machines, stack state machines, formal languages, grammars, Turing machines, Hanting Problem, P NP.
No, we went Automata, Finite State Machines, regex, grammars, set-theoretical and other mathematical formalisms