From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/2461 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Stevenson Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Question on standard terminology Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:31:41 -0400 Message-ID: <6B79B655-F801-11D7-A52E-000A959EB774@cs.clemson.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241018676 4257 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:24:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:24:36 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories List Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Mon Oct 6 16:52:45 2003 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:52:45 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.10) id 1A6bKr-0005rO-00 for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:48:01 -0300 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-CPSC-Clemson-MailScanner: Found to be clean Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 11 Original-Lines: 21 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:2461 Archived-At: Good Morning: I have a question about "standard terminology" or "standard methodology". Is there a standard technique to generate the closure of a set through generating the next element from the current? The motivating idea is a simple one: generate a free language from the list of characters. This is a standard inductive process seen in lots of automata and formal language books. Seems like there is product followed by a co-product sort of action. best regards, steve -------- D. E. Stevenson, Department of Computer Science Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0974 864.656.6880 http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~steve