kleene star

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The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions

In mathematical logic and computer science, the Kleene star (or Kleene closure) is a unary operation, either on sets of strings or on sets of symbols or characters. The application of the Kleene star to a set V is written as V*. It is widely used for regular expressions, which is the context in which it was introduced by Stephen Kleene to characterise certain automata

Relevante Übersetzungen

Kleene stars

plural form of Kleene star

Synonyme

kleene closure

Etymologie

() After Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician.