Compaction of Church Numerals

In this study, we address the problem of compaction of Church numerals. Church numerals are unary representations of natural numbers on the scheme of lambda terms. We propose a novel decomposition scheme from a given natural number into an arithmetic expression using tetration, which enables us to o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Isamu Furuya, Takuya Kida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-08-01
Series:Algorithms
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/12/8/159