Recursively enumerable languages are not closed under set difference or complementation.
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It may be shown that unrestricted grammars characterize the recursively enumerable languages.
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Let L be a recursively enumerable language.
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Recursively enumerable languages are intersection, but not under set difference; see Recursively enumerable language # Closure properties.
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Recursively enumerable languages are intersection, but not under set difference; see Recursively enumerable language # Closure properties.
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A universal Turing machine can calculate any recursive function, decide any recursive language, and accept any recursively enumerable language.
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A language which is accepted by such a Turing machine is called a "'recursively enumerable language " '.
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Recursively enumerable languages are known as "'type-0 "'languages in the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages.
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Within the Chomsky hierarchy, the regular languages, the context-free languages, and the recursively enumerable languages are all full AFLs.
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Such sets are recursively enumerable languages and every recursively enumerable language is the restriction of some such set to a sub-alphabet of "'A " '.