Define a set S of strings over the set {a, b} recursively as follows:
I. Base:
II. Recursion: If
II(a)
II(d)
III. Restriction: Nothing is in S other than objects defined in I and II above.
Use structural induction to prove that every string in S contains an even number of a’s.
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