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Complexity classes of formal languages

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The research reported here was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant MCS77-11360.

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Book, R.V. (1979). Complexity classes of formal languages. In: Bečvář, J. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1979. MFCS 1979. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 74. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-09526-8_4

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