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by activatedgeek 3274 days ago
Yes, the vending machines examples is one of the most directly relatable ones. In fact, pretty much every piece of code you write has gone through a "Finite State Automata" (during the lexical phase of compilation to be exact) which in very simple terms is just a huge set of rules saying - "if this then that".
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finite state automata haha