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Can a language be context free if it is limited to a certain number of symbols?...

Can a language be context free if it is limited to a certain number of symbols? How would you represent that if possible?

Ex. { w | |w| <= 5 }, with alphabet Σ={x, y}

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If a language is finite then it can be context free. Moreover it will be regular language and in turn it will be context free as well. Now below diagram gives you the corresponding DFA:

DFA x/ KI ossibe stings acce

Hope it helps, feel free to comment in case of any query.

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