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Definition: An initial state or condition of a finite state machine or Turing machine. Informally, how the memory is initially set.
See also accepting state, universal state.
Author: PEB
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Paul E. Black, "start state", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures, Paul E. Black, ed.,
NIST.
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