Useless rules
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Formal grammar
A formal grammar is a set of formation rules for strings in a formal language. The rules describe how to form strings from the language's alphabet that are valid according to the language's syntax...

, useless rules are rules of symbol production which are unreachable or unproductive, that is, they are rules of production which can never be applied.

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D is unreachable.
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