A.4 MOORE AND MEALY MACHINE EQUIVALENCE

The examples in the previous section show the difference between Moore and Mealy machines, but they also suggest that if a problem can be solved by a machine of one type, it can also be solved by one of the other type. In this sense, the two types of transducers are possibly equivalent.

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