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28 Jul 2024 18:19:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: An even more interesting problem  
From: Orchid Win7 v1
Date: 25 May 2013 04:30:31
Message: <51a076a7$1@news.povray.org>
On 24/05/2013 07:44 PM, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> On 5/24/2013 11:20 AM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> Suppose I give you two arbitrary regular expressions. Are they
>> equivalent?
>
> It depends on what you specifically mean by "regular expression", but
> probably this problem is PSPACE-complete. From what I can tell is
> generally solved by converting each regexp into a DFA and checking if
> they are isomorphic.

Does the situation change if we disallow the Kleene star?


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