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A Grammar is said to be Non Contracting grammar if it always expends or it remains

7 same. CSG is an example of NCG

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this grammar at every step of derivation we see that the length of the string it either
same or is going to increase

 because a/c to CSG . A Grammar is said to be CSG if all the production are of the form x --
>y where x,y belongs to (V U T)+ and |x|<=|y| means ,LHS length always less then the RHS
length means if we replace a string x with string y in derivation procedure then either the
string length is not going change in case if string length is same or the resulting string

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length is going to increase in case if the string length of RHS is more that is why it is said
 that Grammar is non contracting .
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