Language of Palindromic Strings is not Regular (Theory of Computing)

Опубликовано: 18 Май 2026
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We prove in today's lecture that the language of palindromic strings is not regular. Note that I leave the even-length palindromes as an exercise to prove as not regular, but if you follow the proof and my tip it's a piece of cake!

Time Stamps:
0:00 Recap, what is a palindrome?
1:17 Proving the language of odd-length palindromes is not regular.
11:49 What about the even-length palindromes?
14:14 Closing

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