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Question

I am trying to understand how PDA works. In the following diagram I understand how transition functions work and how the stack must be updated. But The only question I have is Why the Start state is an accept state as well? while the PDA is for L = {on1n | n ≥ 0}, means it must not accept an empty string. Can some one explain the reason for making the start to be accept state, please?

Answer 1

L = {0ⁿ1ⁿ | n ≥ 0}

When n=0, the string is:

0⁰1⁰ = zero 0's followed by zero 1's which is the empty string. So according to the definition, the language L does include the empty string.

If it were to not accept the empty string, the definition would be:

L = {0ⁿ1ⁿ | n > 0}

Answer 2

Because the NFA accepts empty strings