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This chapter introduced the motivations for studying computations in terms of strings and languages. It put our previous discussions about cardinality in Chapter 3 to very good use by quickly showing the fact that there are uncountably many languages. After defining various orderings between strings, we discuss operations on languages: how to make new languages given existing languages. These discussions will set the stage for virtually all of what the rest of this book involves.
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(2006). Strings and Languages. In: Computation Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32520-4_7
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