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aa*"One or more a": aa*Kleene StarFormal RE✨ Emoji Combos

Formal RE has no "+" quantifier. "One or more" is written aa* — one explicit copy then zero or more. Some textbooks define a⁺ = aa* as syntactic sugar.

✓ Accepts
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
✗ Rejects
εbba
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