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Write a grammar in which a nonterminal occurs that is both dead and unreachable.

Write a grammar in which a nonterminal occurs that is both dead and unreachable.

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A useless nonterminal is a nonterminal that can never be used in a "successful" derivation; that is, a derivation that starts with the start symbol and ends with a terminal strings. Therefore, we can delete all productions that contain any useless nonterminals without changing the language generated by the grammer. There are two types of useless nonterminals: unreachable and dead.
An unreachable nonterminal is one that can never appear in a derivation that starts with the start symbol.
The second kind of useless nonterminal, a dead nonterminal, is one from which a termina string cannot be derived.

S --> b
B --> bB

B is both unreachable and dead.

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