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Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity

2 pointsby geospeckover 4 years ago

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bediger4000over 4 years ago
Famed mathematical logical Henk Barendregt calls &quot;egocentric birds&quot; ogres.<p>There&#x27;s a simple ogre, YK, but it has no normal form. There are lots of ogres in a different Combinatory Logic bases. The easiest way to find one is to look for &quot;half-ogres&quot;, terms that reduce like this: O x y -&gt; O x . An ogre is O O. There may not be ogres that have a normal form in SKI combinatory logic.