Describe the error in the following proof that 0 * 1 * is not a regular language.

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Describe the error in the following “proof” that 0*1* is not a regular language. (An error must exist because 0*1* is regular.) The proof is by contradiction. Assume that 0*1* is regular. Let p be the pumping length for 0*1* given by the pumping lemma. Choose s to be the string 0p1p. You know that s is a member of 0*1*, but Example 1.73 shows that s cannot be pumped. Thus you have a contradiction. So 0*1* is not regular.

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