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Which of the following pairs have different expressive power ?

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Deterministic push down automata and non-deterministic pushdown automata.

Two machine models have the same expressive power when they accept exactly the same class of languages.

Turing machines are robust: a single-tape machine can simulate a multi-tape machine and a multi-dimensional machine (only with a polynomial slow-down), so single-tape, multi-tape and multi-dimensional Turing machines all accept exactly the recursively enumerable languages. The two pairs built from Turing machine variants therefore have equal power.

Finite automata: the subset construction converts any NFA into an equivalent DFA, so both accept exactly the regular languages — again equal power.

Pushdown automata: nondeterministic PDA accept all context free languages, while deterministic PDA accept only the deterministic context free languages, a proper subclass. The language of even-length palindromes {wwR} is accepted by an NPDA but by no DPDA, because a deterministic machine cannot know where the middle of the input lies.

Deterministic push down automata and non-deterministic pushdown automata. option is correct.

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