beta reduction

noun

Definitions

  1. The act of beta reducing, an instance of replacing a function call by the result of…

    The act of beta reducing, an instance of replacing a function call by the result of calling a function.

  2. One of the three rewrite rules of the lambda calculus, which states that the application…

    One of the three rewrite rules of the lambda calculus, which states that the application of a lambda abstraction (λx.t) to a term s yields an expression t[s/x], "t with s instead of x", where all free instances of x in t have been replaced by s.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beta reduction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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