Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (2nd Edition)
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Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (2nd Edition) by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 2001 • Addison Wesley • 521 pages.
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