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- noun mathematics Something to be
reduced according to the rules of a formal system.
Etymologies
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Examples
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At any rate, I hope you enjoyed this fantastic redex of my story.
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At any rate, I hope you enjoyed this fantastic redex of my story.
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None of these terms contains a redex, hence they reduce only to themselves.
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˜Nonoverlapping™ means that there are no shared subterm occurrences between two redexes. sc includes because a one-step reduction of a redex may be viewed instead as sc of a singleton set of redexes. sc is, obviously, included in ¥ (i.e., in reduction).
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A term that is either of the form SMNP or of the form KMN is a redex, and the leading combinators (S and K, respectively) are the heads of the redexes.
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Filled up with super unleaded and redex and given it a good blast which seems to have cleared most of the misfire problem.
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Q² obtained by replacing that subterm by MP (NP) is a one-step reduct of Q. (Similarly, for the redex
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This term has a reduction sequence (in which each contracted redex is headed by
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