An Entertaining Example of Using the Concepts of Context-Free Grammar and Pushdown Automation

Abstract

A formal-linguistic approach for solving an entertaining task is offered in this paper. The well-known task of the Hanoi towers is discussed in relation to some concepts of formal languages and grammars. A context-free grammar which generates an algorithm for solving this task is described. A deterministic pushdown automation which in its work imitates the work of monks in solving the task of the Hanoi towers is built.

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Yordzhev, K. (2012) An Entertaining Example of Using the Concepts of Context-Free Grammar and Pushdown Automation. Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics, 2, 105-108. doi: 10.4236/ojdm.2012.23020.

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