ract State Machines Be Useful in Language Theory? Yuri Gurevich a Margus Veanes a Charles Wallace b aMicrosoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA bMichigan Tech, Houghton, Michigan...
Exotic semirings such as the “(max, +) semiring” (R ∪ {−∞}, max, +), or the “tropical semiring” (N ∪ {+∞}, min, +), have been invented and reinvented many times s...