Combining two of them is called (*) concatenation and in some cases matching them can be accomplished by regular expressions.
The Myhill-Nerode relation is defined on sets of these and a set of them is called a formal language. C style ones are null terminated and search algorithms on them include Boyer-Moore and the KMP algorithm. Combining two of them is called (*) concatenation and in some cases matching them can be accomplished by regular expressions. Common encoding methods used include Unicode and ASCII. For 10 points, name these sequences of characters used to store text on computers.
The Myhill-Nerode relation is defined on sets of these and a set of them is called a formal language.
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