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Kleene closure en · NOUN

Etymology

Named in honor of Stephen Cole Kleene (1909–1994), an American mathematician. The “closure” part comes from the fact that a Kleene closure is closed with respect to concatenation; cf. free monoid.

Meanings

  1. The set of all strings of finite length made up of elements of a given set. (Then the Kleene closure is said to be of that given set. For a given set S, its Kleene closure may be denoted as S^*. The Kleene closure includes a string of zero length. Strings are equivalent to ordered tuples but written without the parentheses and commas.)

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Relateds

Kleene star

Translations (1)

bg звезда на Клини (all strings of finite length made up of elements of a given set)

wikipedia: Stephen Cole Kleene