(Maybe off topic) Can someone explain what a finite state machine is?

[Abhijeet Mahagaonkar]

You might wanna have a look at theory of computation.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Coderisland#g/c/601FC994BDD963E4
in this lecture series you will have an explanation for FSM from the ground
up

-AB

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Matty Sarro <msarro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone. I am currently reading through an RFC, and it mentions
> that a client and server half of a transaction are embodied by finite
> state machines. I am reading through the wikipedia article for finite
> state machines, and sadly it's going a bit above my head. I don't
> really have a background in engineering, and would really love to
> understand what is being said. Does anyone have a simple way to
> explain it?
> --
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