The length of the shortest string NOT in the language (over Σ = {a, b}) of the following regular expression is _____________
a*b*(ba)*a*
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
This question was posed to me in an internship interview.
My enquiry is from Minimization of DFA topic in portion Finite Automata and Regular Expression of Compiler