In the theory of formal languages of computer science, mathematics, and linguistics, the Dyck language is the language consisting of balanced strings of parentheses . It is important in the parsing of expressions that must have a correctly nested sequence of parentheses, such as arithmetic or algebraic expressions. It is named after the mathematician Walther von Dyck.
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