Pumping Lemma for Regular Languages Example: Perfect Squares
Here we show that the set of strings that represent perfect squares is not regular by using the pumping lemma for regular languages. The "trick" here is to look at the resulting string length and show that it can only be between two consecutive perfect squares, and not equal to either of them.
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