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So people basically mean a transition table/function, but without the start state or accepting states?

• twtw 9y ago
  No. They mean a set of states, a set of input symbols, a set of output symbols, an initial state, a transition function, and an output function. The output function maps from the state to the set of output symbols (or sometimes from the state and input to the output).
  • HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
    Is there a formal name for this?
    • twtw 9y ago
      It's probably closest to a finite state transducer. No guarantees that what I described above is exactly the definition, though.