Which of the following problems is undecidable ? 

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  1. Membership problem for CFGs.
  2. Ambiguity problem for CFGs.
  3. Finiteness problem for FSAs.
  4. Equivalence problem for FSAs.

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Option 2 : Ambiguity problem for CFGs.
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The correct answer is Ambiguity problem for CFGs.

Key Points

  • The Ambiguity problem for CFGs (Context-Free Grammars) is undecidable.
    • A context-free grammar is ambiguous if there exists a string that can be generated by the grammar in more than one way (i.e., it has more than one distinct parse tree).
    • The ambiguity problem asks whether a given CFG is ambiguous.
    • This problem is undecidable, meaning there is no algorithm that can determine the ambiguity of any CFG in general.

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  • Other problems listed in the options are decidable:
    • The membership problem for CFGs is decidable. This problem asks whether a given string can be generated by a CFG.
    • The finiteness problem for FSAs (Finite State Automata) is decidable. This problem asks whether the language recognized by the FSA is finite.
    • The equivalence problem for FSAs is decidable. This problem asks whether two FSAs recognize the same language.
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