diff -r cf3ca219c727 -r c8ce95067c1a handouts/notation.tex --- a/handouts/notation.tex Mon Feb 22 22:09:31 2016 +0000 +++ b/handouts/notation.tex Tue Mar 22 17:09:24 2016 +0000 @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ \section*{A Crash-Course on Notation} -There are innumerable books available about automata and -formal languages. Unfortunately, they often use their own +There are innumerable books available about compiler, automata +and formal languages. Unfortunately, they often use their own notational conventions and their own symbols. This handout is meant to clarify some of the notation I will use. @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ \noindent but using the big union notation is more concise. An important notion in this module are \defn{languages}, which -are sets of strings. The main goal for us will be how to +are sets of strings. One of the main goals for us will be how to (formally) specify languages and to find out whether a string is in a language or not.\footnote{You might wish to ponder whether this is in general a hard or easy problem, where