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The unsolvability of the Equivalence Problem for Λ-Free nondeterministic generalized machines

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It is shown that the equivalence problem for A-free nondeterministic generalized machines is unsolvable, and it is observed that this result implies the unsolvability of the equality problem for c-finite languages.

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        cover image Journal of the ACM
        Journal of the ACM  Volume 15, Issue 3
        July 1968
        149 pages
        ISSN:0004-5411
        EISSN:1557-735X
        DOI:10.1145/321466
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